Title Information
Title
Atorkor Slave Trade Memorial (Atorkor, Ghana)
Name: Personal (Local)
Name Part
Atarkor (Flickr)
Role
Role Term: Text (marcrelator)
Creator
Name: Personal (Local)
Name Part
Unknown
Role
Role Term: Text (marcrelator)
sculptor
Type of Resource (primo) (authorityURI="https://knowledge.exlibrisgroup.com/Primo/Product_Documentation/020Primo_VE/Primo_VE_(English)/100Loading_Records_from_External_Sources_into_Primo_VE/Configuring_Normalization_Rules_for_External_Resources_(Primo_VE)#Supported_Resource_Types_in_Primo_VE")
images
Genre (aat) (valueURI="http://vocab.getty.edu/page/aat/300046300", authorityURI="https://www.getty.edu/research/tools/vocabularies/aat/")
photographs
Abstract: general (displayLabel="Scope and Contents note")
The memorial is located in the coastal Ghanaian district of Anlo, once known for its substantial involvement in the slave trade. A high-walled circular enclosure with a small wooden door, which serves as a narrow entrance, leads the viewer to the central feature of the memorial: a life-size sculptural group of a tall European slave-trader brandishing a whip over two kneeling African figures. The African figures, dressed in traditional garb, are chained at the neck. The interior walls of the monument are embellished with a narrative frieze illustrating a well-known local legend about a white trader who lived in Atorkor and the young men and women from the village who were deceived by the cunning trader and sold into slavery.
Note: image_accessibility_alt_text
Atorkor Slave Trade Memorial, a life-size sculptural group of a tall European slave-trader brandishing a whip over two kneeling African figures.
Note: preferredcitation
Atorkor Slave Trade Memorial (Atorkor, Ghana), Brown University Library
Origin Information
Date Created
1999
Date Created: Start (encoding="w3cdtf", keyDate="yes")
1999
Place
Place Term: Text (Local)
Atorkor (Ghana)
Access Condition: rights statement (href="http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/")
In Copyright
Access Condition: restriction on access
Collection is open for research.
Identifier: Local (displayLabel="filename")
atorkor-slave-trade-memorial-ghana-2010
Note (displayLabel="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/)