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Captured Africans-Transatlantic Slave Trade Monument (Lancaster, England)

Description

Abstract:
Six rectangular Perspex blocks (acrylic), suspended between a rectangular, stainless-steel column and an oblong, stone column, rests on a circular base embellished with a mosaic and small metal sculptures. The work is meant to recall the decks of the transatlantic slave ships that carried enslaved Africans to the Americas. The Perspex blocks are inscribed with the names of the different commodity objects these ships transported to and from the Americas: wealth, cotton, rum, mahogany, sugar, and slaves. The stainless-steel column lists many of the slave ships that departed from Lancaster and the number of enslaved Africans these vessels forcibly seized in Africa. Underscoring the history of these horrific nautical journeys, the mosaic depicts a map detailing the routes of the Transatlantic Slave Trade, while the metal figures personify the trauma and violence of the Middle Passage.
Notes:
Captured Africans-Transatlantic Slave Trade Monument (Lancaster, England), 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

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In Copyright
Restrictions on Use
Collection is open for research.

Citation

martlakes (Waymarking), "Captured Africans-Transatlantic Slave Trade Monument (Lancaster, England)" (2005). Transatlantic Slave Trade. Brown Digital Repository. Brown University Library. https://repository.library.brown.edu/studio/item/bdr:56xrhk4m/

Relations

Collection:

  • 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. …

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