From a wooden bench at the edge of the Freedom Monument Sculpture Park, visitors can see the Alabama River where enslaved Africans were transported and sold into a life of forced labor.
From the wide windows on the second floor of the International African American Museum in Charleston, South Carolina, visitors can look across the Cooper River toward Africa, where people from the continent were kidnapped to be auctioned off.
The sculpture park opens this month. The international museum opened last summer. Both were built on sites considered sacred and important to telling the history of African Americans, to telling the history of America.
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