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Slavery in Africa, and the African Diaspora: Memory and Suffering

Slavery in Africa, and the African Diaspora: Memory and Suffering

This informational blog is a continuation of the material on slavery from last week, It explores the seminal role slavery has played in the making of the African Diaspora. It also looks at the trauma the existence of this institution caused for countless millions in the past and present.

NOTE: This blog is compiled by and reprinted with permission of Abdul Akailmat, PhD

World

United Nations: Remember Slavery https://www.un.org/en/events/slaveryremembranceday/

Slavery Images: A Visual Record of the Atlantic Slave Trade and Slave Life in the African Diaspora http://slaveryimages.org/s/slaveryimages/page/welcome

Museums of the African Diaspora https://www.blackpast.org/special-features/museums-of-the-african-diaspora/

Slavery in the Americas https://histclo.com/act/work/slave/sg-am.html

Africa

Slave Trade History Sites in West Africa https://www.tripsavvy.com/slave-trade-tours-in-west-africa-1454313

A journey to the slave island of Goree, Senegal https://www.cnn.com/videos/international/2012/02/20/exp-inside-africa-barnett-senegal-goree-island-c.cnn

Angola: The National Museum of Slavery https://momaa.org/directory/national-museum-of-slavery/

England

Slavery and the British TransAtlantic Slave Trade https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/help-with-your-research/research-guides/british-transatlantic-slave-trade-records/

Center for the Study of the Legacies of British Slavery https://www.ucl.ac.uk/lbs/

Center for the Study of International Slavery https://www.liverpool.ac.uk/csis/research/

Beniba Center for Slavery Studies https://www.gla.ac.uk/research/az/slavery/

Institute for the Study of Slavery https://www.nottingham.ac.uk/isos/

History of Slavery Collections https://www.history.ac.uk/library/collections/history-slavery

Caribbean and Latin America

Slavery and Remembrance: A guide to sites, museums, and memory http://slaveryandremembrance.org/partners/search/index.cfm?location=Caribbean

The Middle Passage and Black Latin America

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bMHYhIobLAM

Slavery, Freedom, and Abolition in Latin America and the Caribbean https://guides.library.yale.edu/c.php?g=296376&p=1977039

Brazil's Slave Past: photographs

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Jg4SaMxMnY

First Blacks in the Americas: The African presence in the Dominican Republic

http://firstblacks.org/en/

Cuba: Castillo de San Severino - Slave Route Museum

https://www.cipdh.gob.ar/memorias-situadas/en/lugar-de-memoria/castillo-de-san-severino-museo-de-la-ruta-del-esclavo/

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