Breaking the Chains - Breaking the Silence
Doorway on the left - "Doorway of No Return" - House of
Slaves, Goree
Island, Dakar, Senegal, West Africa
Doorway on the right - Doorway from the old kitchen that leads to yard
area, Poplar Hill on His Lordship's Kindness
As painful as the legacy of slavery may be, it is a part of our past that has shaped our history from the time of colonization to the present. There is a wealth of scholarship and resources on the Internet that offers us as citizens the opportunity to understand the local impact of a global event. The transatlantic slave trade spanned three continents. This section of our web site seeks to place the events relevant to His Lordship's Kindness within that historical context.
This project originally began as our contribution to the observation of the 200th anniversary of the abolition of the British Slave Trade. In 2009, we continue to acknowledge this part of the history of Poplar Hill on His Lordship's Kindness as part of our interpetation of all aspects of this historic site. - Bianca Floyd, Museum Director