Lesson 3: Cultural heritage and respect for diversity

Lesson 3: Cultural heritage and respect for diversity

Representation of Migration at World Heritage Sites

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Liverpool – Maritime Mercantile City (United Kingdom)– a major port for the mass movement of people from slaves to European emigrants in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries

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Statue of Liberty in New York (United States) – the famous landmark at the entrance of the harbor welcoming millions of people from all over the world in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries

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Island of Gorée (Senegal) – the largest Atlantic slave trading centre on the African coast from the fifteenth to the nineteenth centuries; a reminder of human exploitation