List of slavery-related memorials and museums

A number of organizations, museums and monuments are intended to serve as memorials to slavery, and its millions of victims.

Multiple countries

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Angola

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Benin

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Barbados

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France

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Ghana

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Netherlands

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Nigeria

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Portugal

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Senegal

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South Africa

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Suriname

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United Kingdom

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United States

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References

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  4. ^ McAuley, James (28 May 2016). "France confronts slavery, a demon of its past". Washington Post. Retrieved 30 May 2016.
  5. ^ Deb, Tanni (30 July 2018). "Inside Ghana's Elmina Castle is a haunting reminder of its grim past". CNN. Cable News Network. Archived from the original on 1 August 2018. Retrieved 30 September 2024.
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  7. ^ Adrian Mourby (23 October 2011). "Freedom at last, after centuries of Dutch rule". The Independent. Retrieved 19 April 2021.
  8. ^ Lily Girma, Lebawit (1 June 2014). "Kura Hulanda Museum". AFAR. AFAR Media. Archived from the original on 28 September 2022. Retrieved 30 September 2024.
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  12. ^ van Stipriaan, Alex (2004). "July 1, Emancipation Day in Suriname: A Contested Lieu de Mémoire, 1863-2003". NWIG: New West Indian Guide / Nieuwe West-Indische Gids. 78 (3/4): 269–304. ISSN 1382-2373.
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  16. ^ "Bristol and the Transatlantic Traffic in Enslaved Africans". Bristol Museums Collections. Retrieved 30 September 2024.
  17. ^ "Bristol vandalism: Enslaved African man's grave restored". BBC News. British Broadcasting Corporation. 24 September 2021. Archived from the original on 24 September 2021. Retrieved 30 September 2024.
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  21. ^ Daugherty, Ellen (20 October 2019). "The rise and fall of a racist monument: the Good Darky, National Geographic Magazine, and civil rights activism". Nineteenth-Century Contexts. 41 (5): 631–649. doi:10.1080/08905495.2019.1669369. ISSN 0890-5495.
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