Reckoning with Legacies of Slavery and Slave Trade
Capture and Escape
An Atlantic journey to freedom
A World of Contradictions
Navigating enslavement and freedom
New Worlds, New Lives
Slavery in the Americas
Many Middle Passages
Africans and descendants in Europe
Slave-ship resistance and rebellion
Picturing the Past
Enslaved people and portraiture
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.
Sites & Museums Across the Globe
- Afro-Peruvian Museum, Zaña
- National Park Service Network to Freedom
- Historic Cienfuegos
- Oak Alley Foundation
- Indigo Plantations of the East Coast
- The Slave Route, Cuba
Examine objects, structures, landscapes, and culture from more than 50 sites and museums.
Meet people who experienced slavery and slave trade.
Investigate the ideas, places, and events that made an Atlantic world.