History from Below: Memorialization Projects
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Description
Our museum functions as both a memorial and a recreation of the horrors that the enslaved encountered on their journey to America. The ship is located in Savannah, GA on River Street and takes Guests on a ride down the Savannah river while they can tour the historically accurate ship and see everything an enslaved person encountered. The bottom floor features a memorial with the names of many enslaved who died at sea. This is their story.
Publication Date
2019
City
Columbus, Georgia
Keywords
Transatlantic Slave Trade, Savannah, Georgia
Disciplines
History
Recommended Citation
Smith, Sutton; Grossman, Dakota; Singh, Ankush; and Vincenti Perez, Carlos G., "Slave Ship Museum & Memorial" (2019). History from Below: Memorialization Projects. 14.
https://csuepress.columbusstate.edu/historyfrombelow/14
