Reckoning with Legacies of Slavery and Slave Trade

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  An Atlantic World

  Lives shaped by sugar and slavery

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  An Unlikely Founder

  Gowan Pamphlet and Virginia's Baptist Church

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  Atlantic Passages

  Slavery and freedom in Africa and America

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  African Roots

  Society and trade in pre-colonial Africa

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  Heart and Soul

  Faith and freedom in Louisiana

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  Transatlantic Slave Trade

  Tragedy on a global scale

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

• Historic Havana and Fortifications
• Historic Camagüey
• Monument to Abolition of Slavery
• Museum of London Docklands
• Town and Mine of El Cobre
• Oak Alley Foundation

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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.