Culture & Artifacts

Investigate the history and legacy of slavery and slave trade by examining objects, structures, landscapes, and culture of institutions and sites of memory in Europe, Africa, and the Americas.

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• One of the art installations displayed in the Old Square
• Lateral ramp accessing the central patio of San Severino Castle
• Ku Klux Klan outfit
• Ankle shackle
• Old Courthouse/Jefferson National Expansion Memorial
• Opening, to the sound of drums, of the “Monument to Freedom of Slaves in America”
• Indigo plantations of the east coast
• Model representing the hold of a slave ship
• Coffee Sorters