List of slavery-related memorials and museums

A number of organizations, museums and monuments are intended to serve as memorials to slavery, and its millions of victims.

Multiple countries

• Door of Return

Angola

• National Museum of Slavery in Morro da Cruz, Luanda, Angola

Benin

• Door of No Return, Ouidah

Barbados

• Emancipation Statue in Haggett Hall, Barbados

Finland

• Orjaleiripatsas, memorial in memory of the victims of the Slave trade during the Great Wrath.

France

• Slavery museum

Ghana

• Elmina Castle on the Gulf of Guinea
• Cape Coast Castle, Cape Coast

Netherlands

• Kurá Hulanda Museum, in Otrobanda, Willemstad, Curaçao
• National Slavery Monument, in Amsterdam
• Tree of Life, Monument of Awareness, in Amsterdam

Nigeria

• Slave History Museum in Calabar

Portugal

• Mercado de Escravos, in Lagos, Faro District

Senegal

• House of Slaves, on Gorée Island, 3 km off the coast of the city of Dakar, Senegal

South Africa

• Slave Lodge, Cape Town
• Slave memorials in Elim, Western Cape

Suriname

• Statue of Kwakoe in Paramaribo

Qatar

• Bin Jelmood House of the Msheireb Museums in Doha, Qatar, charts the history of the global slave trade, particularly the Indian Ocean slave trade of the region, and the changes caused by its abolition.

United Kingdom

• International Slavery Museum, at the Merseyside Maritime Museum in Liverpool
• Wilberforce House, part of the Museums Quarter of Kingston-upon-Hull
• Buxton Memorial Fountain, in London
• The Wake by Khaleb Brooks in London (planned)
• The gravestone of 'Scipio Africanus' in Bristol
• Plaques for people compensated after the abolition of slavery in Bristol

United States

• Confederate Memorial in Arlington, Virginia
• Emancipation Memorial in Washington D.C.
• Emancipation Memorial in Boston, Massachusetts
• The Emancipation and Freedom Monument on Brown's Island, Richmond
• 1811 Kid Ory Historic House, LaPlace, Louisiana
• Anson Street African Burial Ground, in South Carolina
• Whitney Plantation Historic District, near Wallace, in St. John the Baptist Parish, Louisiana
• The Good Darky in n Natchitoches, Louisiana
• Elijah P. Lovejoy Monument in Alton, Illinois
• The Florida Slavery Memorial at the Florida Capitol in Tallahassee
• Harriet Tubman Memorial in Manhattan in New York City
• Harriet Tubman Memorial in the South End neighborhood of Boston, Massachusetts
• in Williamsburg, Virginia
• El Hombre Redimido in Barrio Cuarto, Ponce, Puerto Rico
• The Legacy Museum in Montgomery, Alabama
• Memorial to Enslaved Laborers in Charlottesville, Virginia
• National Memorial for Peace and Justice in Montgomery, Alabama
• Monumento a la abolición de la esclavitud at Parque de la Abolición in Barrio Cuarto in Ponce, Puerto Rico
• Mothers of Gynecology Monument in Montgomery, Alabama
• Portsmouth African Burying Ground in Portsmouth, New Hampshire
• Slavery Memorial on the campus of Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island
• Statue of Frederick Douglass in Rochester, New York
• United Nations Slavery Memorial in New York City, New York

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