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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• The Oldest Kitchen in Louisiana
• Monument to Abolition of Slavery
• Wall in back of San Severino Castle, with marks made by enslaved builders
• Opening, to the sound of drums, of the “Monument to Freedom of Slaves in America”
• Panorama of present-day Zaña, Peru
• Bust of Montesquieu
• La Isabelica coffee plantation
• Instrumental group
• The History of Mary Prince, a West Indian Slave, Related by Herself