Learn about the New World Slave Trade—from Africa to the Americas via the infamous Middle Passage, the hardships of captives in the Americas and the struggle for abolition. First-person narratives, images, objects and shipwreck artifacts detail the evolution of trans-Atlantic slavery and its links to the Island.
Explore 200 years of slavery in Bermuda, from the early years of settlement after 1612, through Emancipation in 1834. The exhibit showcases the artisan and maritime occupations of Bermudian slaves and free men, as well as their skill, faith, resistance and solidarity.
The Slave Trade and Bermuda: Commissioner’s House, First Floor