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International Diaspora Connections

Explore this theme across 38 historical figures, 84 heritage sites,3 lessons, 18 cultural references, and 2 journeys.

Historical Figures

Heritage Sites

Accompong Maroon Town

Accompong Town, N/A

Acorn African American Cultural Center

Oakland, CA

AfricaMuseum (Royal Museum for Central Africa)

Tervuren, Belgium

African Burial Ground National Monument

New York, NY

Africatown (Clotilda Landing)

Mobile, AL

Amistad Memorial

New Haven, Connecticut

Basilica of Santa Maria Maggiore (Ne Vunda Monument)

Rome, Italy

Bijlmermeer

Amsterdam, N/A

Birchtown, Nova Scotia

Shelburne County, Nova Scotia

Bois Caïman

Cap-Haïtien, N/A

Cane River Creole National Historical Park

Natchitoches, LA

Cape Coast Castle

Cape Coast, N/A

Caribbean Hill, Brooklyn

Brooklyn, NY

Citadelle Laferrière

Milot, N/A

Clichy-sous-Bois

Clichy-sous-Bois, N/A

Congo Square / Louis Armstrong Park

New Orleans, LA

Court Square Slave Market

Montgomery, Alabama

Cova da Moura

Amadora (Lisbon), N/A

Door of No Return, Ouidah

Ouidah, N/A

DuSable Black History Museum and Education Center

Chicago, IL

Elmina Castle Museum

Elmina, Unknown

Farmington Freedom Trail (First Church of Christ)

Farmington, Connecticut

Forks of the Road Slave Market

Natchez, Mississippi

Fort Union Trading Post National Historic Site

Williston, ND

Franklin and Armfield Office (Freedom House Museum)

Alexandria, Virginia

Freedom Monument Sculpture Park

Montgomery, Alabama

Freetown, Sierra Leone

Freetown,

General Archive of the Indies / Casa de la Contratación

Seville, Spain

Georgetown Slave Trade Sites — Gay Street & High Street

Washington, DC

Gullah Geechee Cultural Heritage Corridor

Beaufort, SC

International Slavery Museum

Liverpool, N/A

Iziko Museums of South Africa

Cape Town, South Africa

Kalaupapa National Historical Park

Kalaupapa, HI

Kurukan Fuga site (Kangaba)

Kangaba, N/A

Little Haiti, Miami

Miami, FL

Magnolia Plantation and the Slave Street

Cloutierville, LA

Maison des Esclaves (House of Slaves)

Gorée Island, Unknown

Matonge

Brussels, N/A

Mercado de Escravos (Slave Market Museum)

Lagos, Portugal

Mezquita-Catedral de Córdoba (Great Mosque of Córdoba)

Córdoba, Spain

Monrovia, Liberia

Monrovia,

Museo Afroantillano de Panamá

Panama City, Panamá

Museo Afroperuano de Zaña

Zaña, Lambayeque

Museo Casa de África

Havana, La Habana

Museo de las Culturas Afromestizas "Vicente Guerrero Saldaña"

Cuajinicuilapa, Guerrero

Museu Afro Brasil

São Paulo, São Paulo

Museu Afro-Brasileiro (MAFRO)

Salvador, Bahia

Museum of Black Civilizations

Dakar, Unknown

Museum of West African Art (MOWAA)

Benin City, Unknown

Musée du Quai Branly – Jacques Chirac

Paris, France

Mémorial de l'Abolition de l'Esclavage

Nantes, France

National Museum of African Art

Washington, District of Columbia

National Museum of Colombia

Bogotá, Bogotá D.C.

National Museum of Ghana

Accra, Unknown

National Slavery Monument (Nationaal Monument Slavernijverleden)

Amsterdam, Netherlands

Nkyinkyim Museum

Nuhalenya-Ada, Unknown

Old Slave Mart Museum (Ryan's Mart)

Charleston, South Carolina

Palazzo Vecchio (Alessandro de' Medici)

Florence, Italy

Palenque de San Basilio

San Basilio de Palenque, N/A

Pan African Heritage Museum

Winneba, Ghana

Panthéon – Josephine Baker Crypt

Paris, Unknown

Penn Center

St. Helena Island, SC

Présence Africaine

Paris, Unknown

Quilombo dos Palmares (Serra da Barriga)

União dos Palmares, N/A

San Juan National Historic Site

San Juan, PR

San Lorenzo de los Negros (Yanga)

Yanga, Veracruz, N/A

Sankore Mosque and Manuscript Libraries

Timbuktu, N/A

Santo Stefano degli Abissini

Vatican City, Vatican City

Shockoe Bottom Slave Trading District (Lumpkin's Jail)

Richmond, Virginia

St. Louis Hotel Rotunda Slave Market

New Orleans, Louisiana

Texas Black Cowboys Trail — Chisholm Trail Corridor

Abilene, TX

The British Museum

London, United Kingdom

The Weeping Time — Ten Broeck Race Course

Savannah, Georgia

The Yellow House (Williams' Slave Pen)

Washington, DC

Théâtre des Champs-Élysées

Paris, Unknown

University of the Virgin Islands

Charlotte Amalie, VI

Vertières battlefield

Cap-Haïtien, N/A

Virgin Islands National Park

St. John, VI

Voyageurs National Park

International Falls, MN

Waco Mammoth National Monument

Waco, TX

Whitney Plantation

Wallace, LA

Yates & Harrison Auction House, O'Donnell's Wharf

Baltimore, Maryland

Yorkshire Museum (Ivory Bangle Lady)

York, United Kingdom

Zera Yacob's cave (site contested — needs verification)

Enfraz region (approximate), N/A

Curriculum Lessons

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