Description
- Abstract:
- The memorial, which overlooks the sea, commemorates both the enslaved people who perished in a shipwreck off the coast of Martinique in 1830, and more generally, the tens of thousands of enslaved Africans who were taken to Martinique as part of the transatlantic slave trade. Arranged in a triangle the 15 stone figures are presented as abstracted, geometrized forms, stripping away any individualizing facial or bodily features. The figures face the ocean, leaning forward, their eyes cast downwards and their mouths open, as if vocalizing a scream.
- Notes:
- Mémorial Cap 110/Mémorial de l’Anse Caffard (Le Diamant, Martinique), 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
- CC0 1.0
- Restrictions on Use
- Collection is open for research.
Citation
Stephfr (Wikimedia Commons),
"Mémorial Cap 110/Mémorial de l’Anse Caffard (Le Diamant, Martinique)"
(1998).
Transatlantic Slave Trade.
Brown Digital Repository. Brown University Library.
https://repository.library.brown.edu/studio/item/bdr:zz8mudf4/
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. …