Middle Passage Monument (St. Croix, U.S. Virgin Islands) Walsh, Michael 1948- Creator Walsh, Michael 1948- sculptor images photographs The twelve-foot-high memorial is composed of two large, thick aluminum arcs that bend towards each another but do not touch. The color has a silvery-gray tone and a matte surface etched with scratch-like patterns. It is installed on the grassy grounds of the St. Croix Educational Complex. The monument commemorates the thousands of Africans who perished during the transatlantic slave trade. The version in St. Croix is a replica of the original memorial, which was ceremonially buried on the floor of the Atlantic Ocean—approximately 140 miles off the coast of New York Harbor — following an elaborate funeral procession and a blessing ceremony conducted by a multi-faith group of clergy in 1999. A twelve-foot-high memorial of two large, thick aluminum arcs that bend towards each another but do not touch. Middle Passage Monument (St. Croix, U.S. Virgin Islands), Brown University Library 2000 2000 St. Croix (U.S. Virgin Islands) CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 Collection is open for research. middle-passage-st-croix-2008 Brown University Library, Center for Digital Scholarship, Box A, Brown University, Providence, RI, 02912, U.S.A., (http://library.brown.edu/)