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Built in 1776, La Maison des Esclaves, was a detention center for captured Africans who were destined to be sold as slaves. In 1962 the home was established as a museum dedicated to telling the “personal stories of a private home and the role of its owners in both local business and the slave trade.”
The island of Gorée was the site of one of the earliest European settlements in Western Africa and from the fifteenth to the nineteenth century, served as the largest slave-trading site on the African coast. Built in 1776, La Maison des Esclaves, was…

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The Never Again Statue in Gambia is an abstracted human figure, arms outstretched above their head, broken chains hanging from each wrist. Both the frontal and posterior planes of the body are painted black, while the sides of the body are painted white. A geometric, linear symbol is inscribed on the figure's chest.
The work depicts an abstracted human figure, arms outstretched above their head, broken chains hanging from each wrist. Both the frontal and posterior planes of the body are painted black, while the sides of the body are painted white. A geometric,…

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Located on the sandy shores of Ouidah, Benin, the monumental concrete red, white, and yellow-painted La Porte du Non Retour, and the metal sculptures that flank it, commemorate the horrors of the Transatlantic slave trade. The memorial gate, which marks the point where African captives were forced onto transatlantic slave ships, is connected by a path, known as the “Slave Route,” to the market square, where enslaved people were once sold.
Located on the sandy shores of Ouidah, Benin, the monumental concrete painted red and yellow and the metal sculptures that flank it, commemorate the horrors of the transatlantic slave trade. The memorial gate, which marks the point where African…

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The Memorial Cap 110 in Martinique overlooks the sea and commemorates both the enslaved people who perished in a shipwreck off the coast of Martinique in 1830, and more generally, the tens of thousands of enslaved Africans who were taken to Martinique as part of the transatlantic slave trade. Arranged in a triangle the 15 concrete figures.
The memorial, which overlooks the sea, commemorates both the enslaved people who perished in a shipwreck off the coast of Martinique in 1830, and more generally, the tens of thousands of enslaved Africans who were taken to Martinique as part of the…

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Photograph of Redemption Song in Kingston, Jamaica. Statue of a male and female nude figures, shown from the knees up, face one another as they gaze skyward.
Redemption Song centers two bronze nude figures, a Black female and a Black male. Laura Facey modeled the figures from the knees up, standing in a cast-iron domed fountain and with water flowing at their knees. They face one another as they tip their…

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Photograph of the Mémorial ACTe in Pointe-à-Pitre, Guadeloupe, an elongated building that measures 240 meters and is covered with silver grids that represent the roots of the fig trees that grow on the abandoned buildings.
Mémorial ACTe is located on the the site of the former Darboussier sugar refinery on the waterfront in Pointe-à-Pitre, Guadeloupe."The memorial consists of an imposing elongated building that measures 240 meters and is covered with silver grids that…

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Photograph of Desenkadená/Unchained in Willemstad, Curaçao. Three figures are breaking free from the chains that bind their wrists. The central figure is flanked by a man and woman, both of whom gaze at him as he breaks their chains. The “chain breaker,” a muscular, semi-nude man, stands in front of an anvil.
The over life-size bronze sculptural group depicts three figures, two men and one woman. As the title of the work, Desenkadená (Unchained) suggests, the figures are breaking free from the chains that bind their wrists. The central figure is flanked…

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Photograph of the Emancipation Statue (Bussa), holding broken chains in his hands. Located in Bridgetown, Barbados.
The monumental bronze statue depicts a semi-nude figure, dressed only in shorts. He raises his arms in a triumphant gesture, which accentuates the broken chains around his wrists. The identity of the figure is thought to be the leader of the April…

Photograph of Le Marron Inconnu from Port-au-Prince, Haiti. The bronze sculpture depicts a man, kneeling on his right leg. His left leg is outstretched behind him with a broken iron chain on the ground around his left foot. He arches his torso back as he holds a conch shell to his lips with his left hand, tilting his head upward
The bronze sculpture depicts a man, clad only in torn shorts, kneeling on his right leg. His left leg is outstretched behind him; a broken iron chain lays on the ground around his left foot. He arches his torso back as he holds a conch shell to his…

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The Reconciliation Memorial in Richmond, Virgina, is comprised of bronze torsos of two abstracted figures, engaged in a tight embrace, emerging from a rectangular bronze base. This work includes the addition of bronze low-relief designs, reflecting images related to the slave trade, including a topographic map of the James River, birds following slave ships, chains with manacles, and a port with lifts pulling up cotton bales.
The bronze torsos of two abstracted figures, engaged in a tight embrace, emerge from a rectangular bronze base. This work includes the addition of bronze low-relief designs, reflecting images related to the slave trade, including a topographic map of…

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