Description
- Abstract:
- I'Satta is a bronze sculpture of a young African woman dressed in eighteenth-century dress. In her left hand, she carries a string of four fish, while she uses her right hand to balance the wood-slat bucket on her head. On the back of her dress is a schematic of a slave ship, a map of Africa, Adinkra symbols, and text that reads "Angola-Madagascar." The bottom of her skirt includes an image of man's face drowning as a ship sails off. On the side of her skirt, the artist included a Braille inscription: "My soul looks back, lest I forget."
- Notes:
- Enslaved Africans' Rain Garden (Yonkers, New York), 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
- CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
- Restrictions on Use
- Collection is open for research.
Citation
Ater, Renée,
"Enslaved Africans' Rain Garden (Yonkers, New York)"
(2022).
Sites of Slavery.
Brown Digital Repository. Brown University Library.
https://repository.library.brown.edu/studio/item/bdr:qwx9suq3/
Relations
Collection:
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Sites of Slavery
...Sites of slavery are designated as historic places (including plantations, wharves, archaeological sites) where "slavery happened" and that commemorate enslaved Africans, their lives, and their labor. We include sites that act as memorials and often have sculpture, public art, or …