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This kind of makes me wonder if there are museums or memorials in Europe and central/south America dedicated to their role in the slave trade, the way we have them here in the states.

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Yes, there are some (there are 4 in the Netherlands, for example: https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lijst_van_slavernijmonumenten_...), but I think people in Europe are generally less aware of their countries' role in slavery compared to people in the US.

Indeed they do — far more impressive museums and monuments than we have here [1]. Notably, they do not have hundreds of monuments dedicated to those who fought to preserve slavery.

[1] http://www.theroot.com/look-at-all-these-monuments-from-arou...

That one in the Guadeloupe Islands looks like a pretty big deal. We have the Freedom Center here in Cincinnati, which gets like 0 visitors a year, but the city spent a fortune on it and the water-front location.

http://www.freedomcenter.org/

Also whether there are museums or memorials in eastern Africa, commemorating the selling off of hundreds of thousands of fellow Africans into slavery.

Henry Louis Gates did a documentary where he visits some of the monuments in Benin (and elsewhere in West African port cities) that commemorate the people forced into slavery.

I could rephrase my somewhat retorical question: Has any African nation publicly apologised for selling hundreds of thousands of its kinfolks into foreign slavery?

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