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Mobile, Alabama

Africatown Heritage House

Learn about the neighborhood founded by the last people ever brought to the United States by the Atlantic Slave Trade, still inhabited by their descendants.
Houston, Texas

Freedmen’s Town Bricks

After emancipation, former slaves paved the roads of their newly built settlement with these bricks.
Washington, D.C.

Frederick Douglass' Growlery

A stone nook where Frederick Douglass escaped the world to think, read, and write.
Bordeaux, France

‘Strange Fruit’

This striking sculpture was created in memory of enslaved people, acknowledging that the city of Bordeaux was France’s second-largest slave-trade port.
Ste. Genevieve, Missouri

Bauvais-Amoureux House

Step inside one of America’s rare poteaux-en-terre French houses.
Dresden, Ontario

Josiah Henson Museum of African-Canadian History

The settlement of a leading abolitionist who inspired one of America's most influential novels.
Freetown, Sierra Leone

St. Charles’ Church

On a hill in Regent sits the oldest stone church in Sierra Leone.
1763 Monument in Georgetown, Guyana.
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The Berbice Rebellion of 1763 Ended With a Letter

The enslaved population of this former Dutch colony had control of the island for the better part of a year. Their decision to offer peaceful surrender to colonists backfired spectacularly.
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Mount Dillon, Trinidad and Tobago

Remarkable Silk Cotton Tree

A tree so massive it claims half the road, standing at the intersection of history and folklore.
Le Diamant, Martinique

Memorial Cap 110: Memorial de l’Anse Caffard

A haunting memorial to Africans kidnapped and lost at sea during the slave trade.
Cambridge, Maryland

‘Take My Hand’

This Harriet Tubman mural went viral for kids interacting with it.
Savannah, Georgia

‘Black Holocaust Memorial’

Papier-mâché folk art recognizing horrors of slave trade.
Pepel, Sierra Leone

Tasso Heritage Center

A community heritage center on an overlooked island in the Sierra Leone River estuary.
Odessa, Delaware

Corbit-Sharp House

This historic Georgian mansion contains a hidden room that was used to harbor a fugitive in the days of the Underground Railroad.
Framingham, Massachusetts

Meta Vaux Warrick Fuller Collection

The largest collection of works by a pioneering Black woman sculptor is on display at this Massachusetts art museum.
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The Unique Gullah Geechee History of South Carolina

And where to experience Gullah culture across the Lowcountry today.
Portland, Maine

Abyssinian Meeting House

This once-forgotten African American cultural hub was an important stop on the Underground Railroad.
Sharpsburg, Maryland

Kennedy Farm

This is the cabin from which John Brown and his men launched their fateful war to end slavery on October 16, 1859.