Country Profile: Dominica
Dominica shows how Maroon resistance shaped its society. Through short films and a festival , this project revives ancestral leaders, memory sites, and artifacts , seeking a deep historical reckoning and repair.
Country Profile: Ghana
Through Ghana's forts and castles, this project explores the traumas of the transatlantic slave trade and colonialism. It links memory, the diaspora, and reparation to build a just future.
Country Profile: United Kingdom
Through Ghana's forts and castles, this project explores the traumas of the transatlantic slave trade and colonialism. It links memory, the diaspora, and reparation to build a just future.
Country Profile: Brazil
The project explores the impact of slavery in Brazil via Valongo Wharf. Linking memory and resistance, it highlights Black "re-existence" and the ongoing struggle for reparations and racial justice.
The Project
Slavery and its Legacies is an AHRC-funded research project that brings together a diverse team of curators, filmmakers, anthropologists, sociologists and historians from Ghana, Brazil, Domica and Britain to creatively explore how histories of Atlantic slavery are remembered, mobilised and contested among communities impacted by its legacies.
Disconnection and Reconnection: Reflections on a Visit to Cape Coast and Elmina
The text explores how the forts where enslaved people were held in Ghana remain powerful spaces of memory, ancestral reconnection, and reflection on the lasting social impacts of the transatlantic slave trade and colonialism.