Being a Slave in Bordeaux in the 18th Century

20 cours Pasteur, 33000 Bordeaux

Discover on this guided tour, with a museum mediator, the history of a population long made invisible in Bordeaux. The slave trade across the Atlantic affected nearly 13 million children, women and men during the modern era, part of a mercantile process aimed at enriching certain European states. Among the deportees, most of whom were torn from Africa to cultivate sugar cane, indigo, or cacao in the American colonies, some experienced a life of enslaved in Europe itself. Bordeaux was no exception; thousands of Afro-descendant people have been identified whose presence is evident in parish r…