Browse Collections (15 total)

This collection focuses specifically on monuments and memorials that signal the end of slavery through the Emancipation Proclamation. Included in…

The monuments and memorials in this section commemorate the enslaved and free men and women who resisted bondage and worked to end the institution…

This collection focuses on monuments and memorialsdedicated to the Transatlantic Slave Trade and the Middle Passage. Between the 16th and 19th…

The monuments and memorials in this collection acknowledge the important contributions of African Americans to American history including the long…

The monuments in this collection examine the intertwined histories of American universities and slavery. In his book, Ebony and Ivy: Race, Slavery,…

This collection is just a fraction of the burial sites dedicated to enslaved persons, "contrabands," and freed persons. Many of these cemeteries and…

Frederick Douglass (c. February 1818—February 20, 1895), one of the most brilliant orators of his generation, worked ceaselessly for the cause of…

The monuments in this collection address the life and legacy of Sojourner Truth, the tireless abolitionist, feminist, and brilliant orator. Truth…

Monuments and memorials to the transatlantic slave trade in West and East Africa are included in this collection. Memorialization efforts from Senegal…