Lest We Forget: The Triumph Over Slavery - 10 December 2004 to 17 January 2005 Exhibitions at UN Headquarters French Spanish available soon
UN Press Release of the Exhibition
"Reading the Emancipation Proclamation" - Effective January 1, 1863, the proclamation signaled to Americans, enslaved and free, that the Civil War was a war against slavery. Many of the newly emancipated were among the 200, 000 African Americans who fought for the Union cause. Sample Noel Pittman collection
"Bodies in the Sea" by Rod Brown, Deaths were a daily occurrence during the sea voyage from Africa to the Americas, with sickness, disease, rebellion, and suicide taking many lives (Collection of Rod Brown) "The African Burial Ground" - by Charles Lilly. More than 20,000 enslaved African men, women and children were buried at the colonial-era African Burial Ground in Lower Manhattan, New York City. Unearthed during construction of a federal office building in 1991, the cemetery covered more than five acres or about five city blocks. Art and Artifacts Division, Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, The New York Public Library
Howard Dodson, Director, The Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture Craig Mokhiber, Deputy Director, New York Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights
Alfatih Hamad, Deputy Director, UNESCO Liaison Office in New York
"Révolte des nègres. Massacre des blancs" - Lithograph in Saint-Domingue ou Histoire de ses révolutions, Paris, ca. 1800 - The Haitian revolution was the most successful slave rebellion in the Americas. The Haitian rebels established an independent republic and inspired rebellions and revolts throughout the hemisphere. Manuscripts, Archives and Rare Books Division, Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture at the New York Public Library




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