National Museum of Slavery, Historical museum in Morro da Cruz, Luanda, Angola
The National Museum of Slavery exhibits hundreds of artifacts from the slave trade period, including chains, sculptures, and maritime transportation equipment.
The museum stands on the former property of Alvaro de Carvalho Matoso, a major slave trader who operated along the African coast until 1798.
The museum occupies the former estate of Álvaro de Carvalho Matoso, a leading slave trader on the African coast in the first half of the 18th century. Its collection of hundreds of items used in the trade is displayed beside the Capela da Casa Grande, the 17th-century chapel where enslaved people were baptized before embarkation.
The museum occupies the former Matoso estate on Morro da Cruz, above the bay of Luanda. The chapel building is reached on foot over gravel, with three stone steps up to the main door and a second entrance in the lower left wing. The exhibition rooms adjoin the chapel.
The museum's core is the Capela da Casa Grande, a 17th-century chapel where enslaved people were baptized before boarding slave ships bound for the Americas. The building is the oldest surviving structure on the former Matoso estate at Morro da Cruz.
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