The Florida Slavery Memorial is a planned site to commemorate the struggles and suffering of slaves with a memorial at the Florida Capitol in Tallahassee.
It was sponsored by representative Kionne McGhee from Miami.
[1] Florida is also sending a statue of Mary McLeod Bethune to the U.S.
[2] State Senator Dennis Baxley, a descendant of a Confederate soldier, blocked a memorial bill a year earlier but supported the bill that passed in 2018.
[3] The Florida House of Representatives passed the bill unanimously.