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Podcast: Trinity Long Room Hub Podcasts
Episode: TLRH | The Death of the National Museum of Brazil: Slavery Heritage on the Edge
Description: Monday, 22 March 2021, 7 – 8:15pm
An online lecture as part of the Out of the Ashes Lecture Series, with Professor Ana Lucia Araujo, Howard University, Washington.
This lecture examines the history of the National Museum in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, which was destroyed by fire in September 2018. Araujo explores the connections between the museum's building and the formation of its collections associated with the history of the Atlantic slave trade and slavery in Brazil, the country that imported the largest number of enslaved Africans (nearly five million) during the era of the Atlantic slave trade. The museum housed the oldest collection of Af...