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  ~The Freedom House Museum~

The Freedom House Museum has transformed its location's history from the Franklin and Armfield Slave Office into a place of education, reflection, and hope. Originally the structure was built as a home for Brigadier General Robert Young, member of the DC militia, in 1812. When Young was forced to sell in 1828, it become Isaac Franklin and John Armfield's cash cow and torture chamber. The men converted the residence into a prison with high walls, interior chambers, and other additions that they built with the intention of holding enslaved people in the basement and lower floors while the enslavers and traffickers worked on the higher levels. Despite importing of enslaved people being outlawed in 1808, domestic interstate trade flourished as the Cotton Belt demand grew larger than those of the northern tobacco regions in the 1820s. Armfield would 'buy' and enslave individuals for cheap prices in Northern Virginia and traffick them to Franklin in Louisiana. Eight years later, they sold the business and became some of the wealthiest men in the country, a result of annually trafficking around 1,000 individuals (more than $100,000 each year.) The building remained headquarters for slave trading operations for over 30 years until then-owners Price, Birch, & Company fled south in 1861 as the union closed in (after this, the union army utilized the building as a jail.) At the time of it's abandonment, only one enslaved man remained, chained to the floor. Throughout its entire operation, thousands of African-Americans were trafficked and brutalized. In 2008, the building was transformed into the Freedom House Museum by the Urban League and is dedicated to Reverend Lewis Henry Bailey, founder of several churches and schools still in existence, who was trafficked through the site to Texas and freed in 1863. The main exhibit discusses the building's history, and the second floor showcases Black residents of Alexandria who impacted the community. The third floor displays an art exhibit and reflection room. As of 2023, the museum is open Friday and weekends and admission is $5.

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  ~Kluge-Ruhe Aboriginal Art Collection of the University of Virginia~

Although nowhere near home to most Aboriginal Australians, Charlottesville's University of Virginia houses the Kluge-Ruhe collection- the only museum outside of Australia dedicated to preserving and showcasing artwork created by Indigenous Aboriginal artists. Originally begun by media mogul Kluge and professor Ruhe who donated the collection in the late 1990s, the museum now aims to support collaborative relationships and provide educational experiences. Breakthrough paintings of the Papunya Tula movement and Arhnem Land artists are housed here, part of over 2,000 artpieces spanning media. Much of the artwork is contemporary and explorative, and the museum (located on Pantops Farm, once owned by Thomas Jefferson) is free by reservation.

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  ~Memorial to Enslaved Laborers at the University of Virginia~

The push to create the Memorial to Enslaved Laborers, dedicated to the roughl 4,000 African-American individuals who were forced to construct the University of Virginia between 1817 and 1865, was student-led in 2007 and unveiled in 2020. Comprised of a large granite sculpture in the shape of a broken ring (symbolizing broken shackles and the liberatory ring shout dance, as well as a sheltering embrace), which references the Rotunda designed by enslaver and president Thomas Jefferson. The memorial itself is located on the 'Triangle of Grass', which was originally designed to hide the enslaved workers on campus from view. On the outer wall are engraved eyes by the artist Eto Otitigbe, inspired by an image of Isabella Gibbons, an enslaved woman owned by University professors, who later became an educator of liberated African-Americans. A quote of hers is engraved on the wall as well. The inner ring details a timeline of slavery at the University. Engraved on the rings are the names of some enslaved people who were identified (578 so far), as well as 311 words (first names, jobs, or relationships) to mark 311 people whose full names are now unknown. Most of the ring- representing over 3,000 people- is blank, with only notches to signify others who were completely unidentifiable. The blank areas on the memorial are also meant to be a reminder that the fight against racism and for liberation is still ongoing.