Nelson has spent years researching and restoring sites related to the slave trade and studying slavery at UVA as part of the President’s Commission on Slavery and the University. In Senegal, his team is expanding the educational offerings of a house that has become a prominent symbol of one of the darkest periods of the country’s history, marked by not only the enslavement of Africans by Europeans, but also the capture and sale of Africans by other Africans.
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