Slavery

The permanent exhibition is on the Atlantic commerce and especially the slave trade developed since the creation of the port of Bordeaux, one of the main slave ports of France. Throughout the visit, written comments help visitors understand the context and history of the objects and tools on display.

While the Memorial to the Abolition of Slavery contributes to remembrance and the public record of memory in the city, the Nantes History Museum, located in the Château des Ducs de Bretagne, provides the keys to understanding the city’s slave-trading history, extensively presented in the permanent exhibit.
Both locations are connected through a walk in the streets of Nantes marked out by eleven information boards on the slave trade, with the title “Nantes and the slave trade”.

The International Slavery Museum increases the understanding of transatlantic, chattel and other forms of enslavement. Through our collections, public engagement and research, we explore their impact and legacies.

We are a campaigning museum that actively engages with contemporary human rights issues. We address ignorance and challenge intolerance, building partnerships with museums, communities and organisations that share our vision.

For nearly 250 years Denmark was a colonial power in the West Indies, now known as the US Virgin Islands. 2017 marks the centenary of the sale of the West Indies to the United States and a number of museums in and around Copenhagen have used this occasion to shed light on Denmark’s colonial past. Delve into the enlightening and diverse exhibitions. At The Workers Museum the colonial history of Denmark is used as the point of departure for a broader exhibition on human enslavement.