National Museum of Slavery

The National Museum of Slavery (Portuguese: Museu Nacional da Escravatura) is located in Morro da Cruz, Luanda, Angola.[1]

This article is about the museum in Angola. For the proposed museum in the United States, see United States National Slavery Museum.
The National Museum of Slavery
National Museum of Slavery is located in Angola
National Museum of Slavery
Location within Angola
Established1977
LocationMorro da Cruz, Luanda, Angola
Coordinates8.958°S 13.105°E / -8.958; 13.105
TypeHistory of Slavery

History

The museum was founded in 1977 by the National Institute of Cultural Patrimony, with the objective of depicting the history of slavery in Angola.[2] The museum adjoins the Capela da Casa Grande, a 17th-century structure where slaves were baptized before being put on slave ships for transport to the Americas.

The museum displays hundreds of items utilized in the slave trade, and is located in the former property of Álvaro de Carvalho Matoso, captain of the presidio of the Forte de Ambaca, Fortaleza da Muxima, and Forte de Massangano in Angola, and one of the largest slave-traders on the African coast in the first half of the 18th Century. Matoso died in 1798, and his family and heirs continued in the slave-trade until 1836, when a decree by Maria II of Portugal prohibited the export of slaves from the Portuguese Empire.[3]

References
  1. "Angola's museum sheds light on dark history of slavery". www.aa.com.tr. Retrieved 2022-03-16.
  2. "National Museum of Slavery · Antislavery Usable Past". www.antislavery.ac.uk. Retrieved 2022-03-16.
  3. "Account Suspended". www.angoladigital.net. Archived from the original on 2016-10-03. Retrieved 2017-07-21.

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