Description
- Abstract:
- The work depicts an abstracted human figure, arms outstretched above their head, broken chains hanging from each wrist. Both the frontal and posterior planes of the body are painted black, while the sides of the body are painted white. A geometric, linear symbol is inscribed on the figure's chest. A globe is used for the figure’s head. “Never Again!” is painted on the base of the work.
- Notes:
- Never Again Statue (Albreda, The Gambia), 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-SA 4.0
- Restrictions on Use
- Collection is open for research.
Citation
Cufs, Lars (Wikimedia Commons),
"Never Again Statue (Albreda, The Gambia)"
(1998).
Transatlantic Slave Trade.
Brown Digital Repository. Brown University Library.
https://repository.library.brown.edu/studio/item/bdr:w9dn3vh4/
Relations
Collection:
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Transatlantic Slave Trade
...This collection focuses on commemorative works dedicated to the transatlantic slave trade and the Middle Passage. Between the sixteenth and nineteenth centuries, between ten million and twelve million enslaved Africans were forcibly taken across the Atlantic Ocean to the Americas. …