Here are nine places that played a critical role in the transatlantic slave trade—and which have taken steps to raise public awareness about its global impact
, the historical center of Rio’s “Little Africa” and the birthplace of samba, is where many formerly enslaved people settled.Royal Palaces of Abomey
were homes to the leaders of the Kingdom of Dahomey, one of the most powerful empires along the western coast of Africa. Under the twelve successive kings who ruled, the slave trade thrived as the leaders would seize people from other African states as prisoners of war. These captives would be sold as slaves to Portuguese, French, and British merchants, who shipped them to nations in the Americas, particularly Brazil.
Thomas Jefferson enslaved more than 400 people at Monticello, in Charlottesville, Virginia. Travelers can pay tribute to those who lived and died on the plantation at the African American Burial Ground, where archeologists identified 40 or more unmarked gravesites in 2001.Please be respectful of copyright. Unauthorized use is prohibited.
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