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Located in Ponce, Puerto Rico, the sculpture shows a kneeling, formerly enslaved Black man in front of an obelisk.
A bronze sculpture of a seminude, Black man in a kneeling position is located at the southernmost point of El Parque de la Abolición (Abolition Park) in Ponce, Puerto Rico. His hands are open, palms facing upward, with broken manacles hanging from…

Photograph of the Clave/Monument to Slavery in Amsterdam, The Netherlands. Four nude figures dance across the abstracted bow of a ship. Each figure strikes a distinct, rhythmic pose even as they are shackled together at the ankle by iron chains.
Four nude figures dance across the abstracted bow of a ship. Each figure strikes a distinct, rhythmic pose even as they are shackled together at the ankle by iron chains. The outer most figure appears to have broken free from this rhythmic…

Vertical photograph of the Gilt of Cain in London, England. The monument consists of seventeen carved granite columns clustered around a granite podium. The curvilinear forms of the columns recall the growing stems of sugarcane.
Located near St. Mary Woolnoth Church, where the abolitionist William Wilberforce heard the anti-slavery sermons of the Rev. John Newton, the monument consists of seventeen carved granite columns clustered around a granite podium. The curvilinear…

Photograph of the National Slavery Monument in Amsterdam, The Netherlands. An over life-sized woman, her arms outstretched as she arches her body backward, recalls the ship’s prow. The stern of the ship is personified by a number of nude figures, staggering forward, tethered to one another by the shackles around their necks and wrists.
Taken collectively, the elongated bronze figures of enslaved Africans evoke the hull of a ship. An over life-sized woman, her arms outstretched as she arches her body backward, recalls the ship’s prow. The stern of the ship is personified by a number…

Photograph of the Fers, hommage au General Dumas in Paris, France. The memorial consists of two broken shackles and iron chains
Made in 2008, the monumental ironwork is dedicated to both the memory of General Thomas-Alexandre Dumas (Davy de La Pailleterie), the first Black general in France and in acknowledgment of the abolition of slavery. The memorial was dedicated on April…
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