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Musée du Nouveau-Monde

10 Rue Fleuriau
17000 La Rochelle
France
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La Rochelle was a major slave port, and its Musée du Nouveau Monde (Museum of the New World) is a site of memory of slavery. The museum was opened in 1982 by Michel Crépeau, Mayor of La Rochelle.

Musée des Arts décoratifs et du Design de Bordeaux

39 Rue Bouffard
33000 Bordeaux
France
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The Musée des Arts décoratifs et du Design de Bordeaux (Museum of Decorative Arts and Design) was formerly a hotel that belonged to various wealthy merchants, completed in 1779.

Monument to the abolition of slavery in Saint-Nazaire

Quai de Kribi
44600 Saint-Nazaire
France
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The monument "the abolition of slavery” was installed in 1998 in Saint-Nazaire.

Bust of the Abbé Grégoire in Emberménil

Place de l'Abbé-Grégoire
54370 Emberménil
France
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The bronze bust of the Abbé Grégoire is located at the entrance of the house of the Abbé Grégoire, in Emberménil. It was smelted by Joel Huguenin and sculpted by Véronique Marriage.

Maison de l’Armateur

3 Quai de l'Île
76600 Le Havre
France
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The Maison de l’Armateur (the House of the Ship-owner) is an eighteenth century house located in Le Havre, and was owned by various merchants before being converted into a museum.

Château de Joux, Pontarlier (Toussaint Louverture)

Château de Joux
25300 La Cluse-et-Mijoux
France
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The Château de Joux (Jura) was a state prison where Toussaint Louverture was imprisoned. Louverture was the first black general in the French army.

Maison de la Négritude in Champagney

24 Grande Rue
70290 Champagney
France
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The House of Negritude and Human Rights is a municipal museum since its creation in 1971 by René Simonin, a Champagney inhabitant who enearthed the Article 29 of the Champagney grievances book from th