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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• Sculpture, Calabar’s Slave History Museum
• Sugar kettles
• Plaque commemorating the arrival of the first enslaved people
• “Tana” musician with “Checo,” or calabash
• Final slave exit from the Cape Coast Castle
• William Ansah Sessarakoo
• The History of Mary Prince, a West Indian Slave, Related by Herself
• Beads manufactured in London for trade in West Africa
• Slave port Chérrepe Llegaban, Zaña, Peru