National Slavery Museums & Global History of Enslavement of Black People

I just saw news that the United States' National Slavery Museum is scheduled to open in 2007 and will be located near Fredericksburg, Virginia.

So now, quite logically, we are going to need a global movement of scholars, the public, and policymakers who have historical integrity, for the same type of museums in other places that were part of this history... the 500 or more years of forced global trafficking of Africans. We need slavery museums in every other country in the Americas, as well as in the Arab world, Portugal, Spain, Britain, and France.

What about the African descendants in India, Pakistan, and elsewhere?

And is there any part of Africa not touched by this history? Senegal's infamous Goree Island and the Door of No Return are far from the only places of their kind.

Frankly probably the majority of countries in Africa need a museum dedicated to the history of the slave trade and enslavement - including all those stories (which local Africans still know and feel) of how people were collected and which people, and their mass deportations to the rest of the world. Any other regions I missed?

Comments

[WK]

Hi Marian,
I like to read your log.
It's very informative about African American.
Keep up the good work.

Regards
WK

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