Description
- Abstract:
- Five nude torsos of enslaved Africans emerge from stone pillars, whose rough and pebbled texture resemble the stones that fill the concrete pit that surround them. The five cast concrete figures, all but one of whom are chained around the neck, are located on the site of the last slave market in Africa.
- Notes:
- Kumbukumbu Ya Historia Ya Watumwa/Memory for the Slaves (Stone Town, Zanzibar, Tanzania), Brown University Library
- Digital object made available by: Brown University Library, Center for Digital Scholarship, Box A, Brown University, Providence, RI, 02912, U.S.A., (http://library.brown.edu/)
Access Conditions
- Rights
- CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
- Restrictions on Use
- Collection is open for research.
Citation
Childs, Adrienne,
"Kumbukumbu Ya Historia Ya Watumwa/Memory for the Slaves (Stone Town, Zanzibar, Tanzania)"
(1998).
Transatlantic Slave Trade.
Brown Digital Repository. Brown University Library.
https://repository.library.brown.edu/studio/item/bdr:2x3jns8y/
Relations
Collection:
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Transatlantic Slave Trade
...This collection focuses on commemorative works dedicated to the transatlantic slave trade and the Middle Passage. Between the sixteenth and nineteenth centuries, between ten million and twelve million enslaved Africans were forcibly taken across the Atlantic Ocean to the Americas. …