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Independence Square Artwork
James Sidbury, Molly Morgan, Sam Cullins, Daniel Domingues
Instrument of torture displayed in the Municipal Museum of Mangaratiba
Instrument of torture used on runaway slaves, from the Santa Izabel plantation
Intervention on museum wall labels
Revised wall labels that highlight the "discursive strategies of silencing the history of slavery in Brazil" and how museums have been complicit in the process of silencing.
James Sidbury
James Sidbury in Roundtable 1: Preserving and telling histories of diasporic communities
Jeffrey Fleisher
Jeffrey Fleisher in Roundtable 2: What role(s) should scholars play?
Jongo at the quilombo Santa Rita do Bracuí
The jongo is a dance that was originally performed by the enslaved workers at coffee plantations in southeast Brazil. Today, the quilombo of Santa Rita do Bracuí is continuing this Afro-Brazilian tradition.
Kenneth Bilby
Kenneth Bilby in Roundtable 2: What role(s) should scholars play?
Mãe Meninazinha de Oxum and Nilce Nascimento
The leader of Ilê Omolu Oxum, Mãe Meninazinha de Oxum, and her niece, Nilce Nascimento.
Maria Cambinda at the National History Museum
This 19th-century sculpture and mask in wood was used in processions of the Brotherhood of Our Lady of the Rosary of Black Men, in Ouro Preto, Minas Gerais. She was adopted as a symbol of the Decolonial Brazil: other histories exhibition at the…
Marilda de Souza
Marilda de Souza, one of the leaders of the quilombo Santa Rita do Bracuí, standing in front of a poster explaining the history of the community.
Meeting with Texas Historical Commission at Levi Jordan Plantation
From left to right: William Polley, Shannon Smith, Catherine Jalbert, James Sidbury, Anthony Pinn, Jeffrey Fleisher, Angela Pfeiffer, Chris Eliott, Sam Collins, Molly Morgan, Brett Cruse, Hermann von Hesse
Mellon Sawyer team on the stairs of the Hanging Garden of Valongo
Participants of the Mellon Sawyer seminar on the stairs of the Hanging Garden of Valongo
Mellon Sawyer team with Miriam Bondim in Mangaratiba
Hermann von Hesse, Molly Morgan, Daniel Domingues, James Sidbury, and Miriam Bondim (Researcher, Municipal Museum of Mangaratiba)
Mellon-Sawyer team at the MUHCAB
Participants of the Mellon Sawyer seminar inside the MUHCAB (Museu da História e da Cultura Afro-Brasileira)
Memorial Iyá Davina
Located in the terreiro Ilê Omolu Oxum, the Memorial Iyá Davina is a documentation and research center open to the public and dedicated to Afro-Brazilian society and culture. The center stores various materials (including photographs, drawings,…
Miriam Bondim
Miriam Bondim in Roundtable 3: Public history at museums and historic sites
Molly Morgan
Molly Morgan in Roundtable 3: Public history at museums and historic sites