Description
- Abstract:
- The over life-size bronze sculptural group depicts three figures, two men and one woman. As the title of the work, Desenkadená (Unchained) suggests, the figures are breaking free from the chains that bind their wrists. The central figure is flanked by a man and woman, both of whom gaze at him as he breaks their chains. The “chain breaker,” a muscular, semi-nude man, stands in front of an anvil. Simon captures the figure mid-swing as he raises a hammer over his head with his right hand. In his left hand he holds iron chains in place with a chisel. The work commemorates the 1795 slave rebellion led by an enslaved person called Tula.
- Notes:
- Digital object made available by: Brown University Library, Center for Digital Scholarship, Brown University, Providence, RI, 02912, U.S.A., (http://library.brown.edu/)
Access Conditions
- Use and Reproduction
- CC BY-SA 4.0
- Restrictions on Use
- Collection is open for research.
Citation
Kattiel (Wikimedia Commons),
"Desenkadená/Unchained (Willemstad, Curaçao)"
Resistance.
Brown Digital Repository. Brown University Library.
https://repository.library.brown.edu/studio/item/bdr:pstvc8g7/
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Resistance
...The monuments and memorials in this section commemorate the enslaved and free men and women who resisted bondage and worked to end the institution of slavery. In her book, The Slave's Cause: A History of Abolition (2016), historian Manisha Sinha …