Mémorial ACTe (Pointe-à-Pitre, Guadeloupe) Doré, Fabien (Atelier Doré/Marton) architect Filo gèn' (Wikimedia Commons) Creator Marton, Mikael (Atelier Doré/Marton) architect Mocka-Célestine, Jean-Michel (BMC) architect Pascal Berthelot, Pascal (BMC) architect images photographs "The memorial consists of an imposing elongated building that measures 240 meters and is covered with silver grids that represent the roots of the fig trees that grow on the abandoned buildings. At the entrance is the central patio where a metal monument stands representing a giant tree, which symbolizes the roots of Guadeloupean society The museum, located inside the building, narrates the history of slavery in the Antilles and in America since the beginning of the 17th century through works of art, heritage pieces, video projections, sound environments and interactive tables that testify to the atrocities produced by slavery and human trafficking." The Mémorial ACTe, an elongated building that measures 240 meters and is covered with silver grids that represent the roots of the fig trees that grow on the abandoned buildings. Mémorial ACTe (Pointe-à-Pitre, Guadeloupe), Brown University Library July 7, 2015 2015-07-07 Pointe-à-Pitre (Guadeloupe) CC BY-SA 4.0 Collection is open for research. acte-memorial-pointe-a-pitre-guadeloupe Brown University Library, Center for Digital Scholarship, Box A, Brown University, Providence, RI, 02912, U.S.A., (http://library.brown.edu/)