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The muscular, semi-nude figure looks resolutely forward as he raises a machete in his right hand and holds a long (sugar cane?) in his left. A shackle with a broken chain is still attached to his left wrist. The work was created to celebrate Gaspar…

The Ark of Return serves as a memorial to honor the victims of slavery and the transatlantic slave trade. Constructed from white marble, the memorial is a triangular structure with clean geometric lines and faceted surfaces, giving it a modern yet…

Caught mid-stride, the over life-size bronze statue of Frederick Douglass stands in front of Holmes Hall on the campus of Morgan State University, a historically Black university in Baltimore, Maryland. The bearded Douglass holds a cane in his right…

Eight life-size bronze statues (in six groupings) commemorate the formerly enslaved persons who escaped from the South and sought safety and freedom behind Union lines at the Corinth Contraband Camp in Corinth, Mississippi. Established by Union…

The work is dedicated to Zumbi dos Palmares, a quilombo leader and one of the principal forces behind the resistance to slavery in Brazil. The muscular, seminude figure of Zumbi dos Palmares, stands with his weight shifted to his right foot. He…

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…

The memorial is composed of a number of distinct elements. A rectangular granite stele on State Street marks the memorial’s entrance. On one side, below the engraved text that reads “African Burying Ground Memorial,” a life-size bronze figure of a…

Truths that Rise from the Roots Remembered is located in the African American Heritage Park, a nine-acre memorial park. The park was the site of a historic Black Baptist Cemetery, established in 1885, and later desecrated when the City of Alexandria…

Unveiled three days before the tenth anniversary of Guyanese Independence, the work celebrates the Guyanese anti-colonial struggle, resistance to slavery, and eventual emancipation. It is dedicated to the memory of Cuffy (Kofi Badu), an Akan man sold…

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…