Museums Devoted to the History of Slavery Are a Compelling Sightseeing Visit on Your Next Tropical Vacation

Although slavery in the Caribbean and Bahamas was undoubtedly the most important historical condition of those islands (roughly beginning around the mid-1600s and continuing until the mid-1800s), it is only in the last fifteen-or-so years that museums devoted to that topic have either emerged or been renovated to feature the history of slavery, and these are places that every tourist should visit. The most comprehensive is the Kura Hulanda Museum in the Hotel Kura Hulanda of Curacao, but also impressive and instructive is the Pompey Museum of Slavery and Emancipation in Nassau, The Bahamas. Too few tourists attempt to visit these awesome collections of artifacts relating to that awful institution, and more of them should on their visits to Curacao and The Bahamas.