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Group at Moore Town Cultural Center
Colonel Wallace Sterling, Jeff Fleisher, Molly Morgan, James Sidbury, and Chief Michael Grizzle.
Regional curation facility at Varner-Hogg
includes 19th century furniture, objects, and artworks
Foundations of slave quarters at Varner Hogg
On the descriptive panel in front of this site: "Eighteen slave cabins once stood near this spot, forming a small community separate from the "big house" across the creek. The slaves would have had their own small vegetable gardens and hunted small…
Meeting with Texas Historical Commission at Levi Jordan Plantation
From left to right: William Polley, Shannon Smith, Catherine Jalbert, James Sidbury, Anthony Pinn, Jeffrey Fleisher, Angela Pfeiffer, Chris Eliott, Sam Collins, Molly Morgan, Brett Cruse, Hermann von Hesse
Cais do Valongo (Valongo Wharf)
The Valongo Wharf was the main port of arrival of enslaved Africans in the Americas from 1811 until 1831, with an estimate of about one million people landing there. Many of them died shortly after disembarkment, and those who had survived the…
Circuito Historico de Herança Africana (Historical Circuit of African Heritage)
Map of various sites in Rio related to the history of slavery and Afro-Brazilian communities. Provided by the IPN (Instituto de Pesquisa e Memória Pretos Novos).
Group picture at the Pedra do Sal
Pedra do Sal (Rock of Salt) was originally the site of a quilombo village, and today, an association called the Community Descendents of the Quilombos of Pedra do Sal lives there. Historically, it has also been the center of samba and choro music,…
Group picture at the MUHCAB (Museu da História e Cultura Afro-Brasileira)
In the picture: Dr. Leandro Santanna (director of MUHCAB), Dr. Aline Montenegro (former director of the Museu Historico Nacional), Dr. Monica Lima (professor of History at the UFRJ), Hermann von Hesse, Molly Morgan, Lynne Lee