Description
- Abstract:
- Standing resolutely forward, the muscular figure of a shirtless self-emancipated man ('neg mawon'), with broken shackles and chains around his wrists and neck, holds a conch shell to his lips. The bronze figure, located in the center of a traffic circle, celebrates the self-emancipated (maroon) societies that engaged in a sustained struggle against slavery and French colonialism. The work was unveiled during Dominica’s 2013 Emancipation Celebrations.
- Notes:
- Neg Mawon Emancipation Monument (Roseau, Dominica), 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
- In Copyright
- Restrictions on Use
- Collection is open for research.
Citation
Colenbrander, Ariane (Flickr),
"Neg Mawon Emancipation Monument (Roseau, Dominica)"
(2013).
Emancipation.
Brown Digital Repository. Brown University Library.
https://repository.library.brown.edu/studio/item/bdr:f7fq3ema/
Relations
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Emancipation
The commemorative works under the theme of "Emancipation" include two different types of monuments and memorials: those focused on the end of slavery in the United States through the Emancipation Proclamation, and memorials to emancipation and liberation movements in the …...