Reckoning with Legacies of Slavery and Slave Trade

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  Picturing the Past

  Enslaved people and portraiture

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  An Atlantic Life

  To the Americas and back

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  An Unlikely Founder

  Gowan Pamphlet and Virginia's Baptist Church

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  Between Horror and Hope

  Middle passages from Africa to America

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  A World of Contradictions

  Navigating enslavement and freedom

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  Nanny's Legacy

  Resilience and remembrance in Jamaica

A collaboration of UNESCO’s Slave Route Project, The Colonial Williamsburg Foundation, and dozens of sites and museums across the globe, Slavery and Remembrance aims to broaden our understandings of a shared past shaped by slavery and slave trade, the ways in which we collectively remember and forget, and the power of legacies to forge our present and future.

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Sites & Museums Across the Globe

• Afro-Peruvian Museum, Zaña
• Ruins of La Demajagua Sugar Factory
• Roussel-Trianon Plantation
• Fort Fleur-d’Epée
• International Slavery Museum
• Slave Burial Ground of Anse Sainte-Marguerite

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Culture & Artifacts

Examine objects, structures, landscapes, and culture from more than 50 sites and museums.

Atlantic Lives

Meet people who experienced slavery and slave trade.

History & Memory

Investigate the ideas, places, and events that made an Atlantic world.