Slavery

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

Papier-mâché folk art recognizing horrors of slave trade.

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

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

The largest collection of works by a pioneering Black woman sculptor is on display at this Massachusetts art museum.

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

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

A ghostly cabin attempts to reverse the erasure of enslaved people through poetry.

Inspired by the work of a German artist, these brass installations commemorate the lives of enslaved Vermonters.

In October 1856, Harriet Tubman escaped arrest at this site while attempting to reunite an enslaved woman named Tilly with her fiancé.

A unique museum that uses visual art and storytelling to reveal the hidden history of the Gullah Geechee and their African ancestors.

Tens of thousands of Africans rescued from slave ships passed through this gate before being settled in Sierra Leone.

On an idyllic island off the coast of Sierra Leone, remnants of the defense of the slave trade and its later abolition.

Some say that the battle fought at this Kansas site in 1856 was the first unofficial battle of the American Civil War.

A freedman baker’s lavish tomb has a relief showing various stages of Roman bread making.