The Smithsonian Looks at How the Slave Trade Shaped the World
Written by Black Hot Fire Network on May 15, 2025
“In Slavery’s Wake,” a new exhibition at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History and Culture in Washington, deals in huge themes and vast numbers. Over four centuries, an estimated 12 million Africans were transported across the ocean on more than 36,000 voyages, an epochal forced migration that reshaped societies on both sides of the Atlantic.
But of the artifacts on view in the show, it’s sometimes the smallest that speak most powerfully.
In a case in one . . .
