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National Slavery Museum

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National Slavery Museum
National Slavery Museum
National Slavery Museum
National Slavery Museum
National Slavery Museum
National Slavery Museum
National Slavery Museum
National Slavery Museum
National Slavery Museum
National Slavery Museum
National Slavery Museum
National Slavery Museum
National Slavery Museum
National Slavery Museum
National Slavery Museum
Phone:
+244 923 586 173

Address:
Km. South of Luanda 18, Luanda, Angola

The National Museum of Slavery is located in Morro da Cruz, Luanda, Angola. The museum was founded in 1977 by the National Institute of Cultural Patrimony, with the objective of depicting the history of slavery in Angola. The museum adjoins the Capela da Casa Grande, a 17th-century structure where slaves were baptised before being put on slave ships for transport to the Americas. The museum displays hundreds of items utilised 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.
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