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A monument of King Jaja Opobo in the city center of Opobo that regards him as a renowned and generous leader.

A monument of king Behanzin of the Kingdom of Dahomey in the city of Abomey. Says "I will never accept to sign any treaty making us susceptible by alienating the independence of the ancestor’s land".

This online exhibit follows the life experience of Mel Price, a veteran of the Pacific Theater during World War II. 

A meeting between a King of the Bight of Biafra and European visitors.

In this first painting of Hogarth's Marriage A-La-Mode satirical series, Hogarth critiques the transactional nature of aristocratic marriage through dense layers of symbolism. The figures are positioned like chess pieces in a business deal to expose…

This map lists free states and slave states and shows the distribution of slaves in southern states.

This is a map of the Slave and Free States and Territories slave states depicted in red and free states and territories depicted in green.

Map of Europe, North Africa, and the Middle East.

An image showing how severely an enslaved person was flogged.