Additional Resources

UNESCO

https://sdgs.un.org/goals https://sdgs.un.org/2030agenda https://unesdoc.unesco.org/ark:/48223/pf0000375163

Routes of enslaved Peoples Project

https://en.unesco.org/themes/fostering-rights-inclusion/slave-route https://en.unesco.org/news/slave-route-breaking-wall-silence

Fort Negley

https://www.tennessean.com/story/news/2019/05/21/unesco-nashville-fort-negley-slave-route-project/3755668002/ https://news.vanderbilt.edu/2019/08/20/fortifying-history-vanderbilt-research-leads-to-unesco-designation-for-nashvilles-fort-negley/ https://news.vanderbilt.edu/2019/05/22/fort-negleys-significant-black-history-receives-international-recognition-thanks-to-the-work-of-vanderbilt-scholars/

Fort Mose

https://www.floridamuseum.ufl.edu/histarch/research/st-augustine/fort-mose/ https://www.staugustine.com/story/news/local/2019/05/21/st-augustines-fort-mose-added-to-unesco-slave-route-project/5093874007/

Fort Monroe

https://www.doi.gov/pressreleases/interior-department-applauds-unesco-designation-fort-monroe-slave-route-site-memory ry.htmlhttps://www.dailypress.com/news/hampton/dp-nws-contraband-anniversary-events-20150520-sto

Historic London Town and Gardens

https://www.historiclondontown.org/history https://www.historiclondontown.org/post/african-american-almshouse-experience

Freedmen's town

https://www.houstontx.gov/ecodev/emancipation_park.html https://houstonlibrary.org/gregory https://houstonhistorymagazine.org/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/meeks-freedmans-town.pdf https://www.rbhy.org https://www.descendantsofolivewood.org/about-olivewood/ https://easttexashistory.org/items/show/331

Middle Passage Sites

https://www.baltimoresun.com/news/bs-xpm-1999-06-20-9906220293-story.html https://www.middletownpress.com/middletown/article/Ceremony-will-mark-Middletown-as-UNESCO-Site-of-14471058.php https://globalphiladelphia.org/news/unesco-sites-memory-new-designation-philadelphia https://march.rutgers.edu/unesco-names-annapolis-md-site-of-memory-associated-with-slave-route-project/ https://bostonmiddlepassage.org/the-port-marker/

American Slavery

https://www.forbes.com/sites/tomlindsay/2019/08/30/after-all-didnt-america-invent-slavery/?sh=161b00ef7ef6

Politics of monuments

https://www.historytoday.com/archive/behind-times/statues-politics-and-past https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2020/07/15/when-the-politics-change-so-must-the-statues

confederate statues

https://www.npr.org/2021/02/23/970610428/nearly-100-confederate-monuments-removed-in-2020-report-says-more-than-700-remai

1619 Project

No part of the country has been untouched by slavery. This project attempts to tell the story truthfully- it's an amazing site!

This website aims to further the goal of shaping a just future. UNESCO Sites of Memory encourage dialogue, understanding, and peace at locations where people deserve to be honored for their sacrifices and bravery.