Slavery

Over the course of its history, this tiny island has held enslaved people in transit and served as a quarantine zone. Today, it's a giant tortoise sanctuary.

Ruins of an old sugar mill sitting quietly next to a park in rural Florida.

The final resting place of an esteemed bear hunter and formerly enslaved man who led Theodore Roosevelt on a hunting trip that inspired the creation of the teddy bear.

This monument memorializes a violent massacre where colonial police killed 50 striking dockworkers.

A museum that chronicles the interesting and often dark history of the London docklands, once one of the major trading ports of the world.

This estate on the banks of the James River was home to a Founding Father, two presidents, a famous bugle melody, and what some say was the actual first Thanksgiving.

A moving tribute to a leader of the American abolitionist movement.

This historic hiding place, often used by people escaping slavery, is a testament to a heroic struggle for freedom.

Remnants of a wall built to separate Black residents of Hall's Hill from a newly built subdivision are a grim reminder of segregation in 20th-century Virginia.

Now a living classroom, this house was once the home of Reverend James Clinton Dent, a formerly enslaved man and a pastor.

A Caribbean chef recreates his enslaved great-great-grandmother's dishes inside the home she purchased after buying her freedom.

Once the largest trading firm of enslaved people in the U.S., this building is now a museum that preserves Alexandria's dark past.

This small memorial is almost as well concealed as Smalls himself was on the night he sailed to freedom.

The oldest of its kind in the country, this tree sits where formerly enslaved people are said to have founded the city of Freetown.