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The Ark of Return serves as a memorial to honor the victims of slavery and the transatlantic slave trade. Constructed from white marble, the memorial is a triangular structure with clean geometric lines and faceted surfaces, giving it a modern yet solemn appearance. A triangular portal in the structure allows visitors to walk through the interior.
The Ark of Return serves as a memorial to honor the victims of slavery and the transatlantic slave trade. Constructed from white marble, the memorial is a triangular structure with clean geometric lines and faceted surfaces, giving it a modern yet…

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Atorkor Slave Trade Memorial in Atorkor, Ghana, isa life-size sculptural group of a tall European slave-trader brandishing a whip over two kneeling African figures. The African figures, dressed in traditional garb, are chained at the neck.
The memorial is located in the coastal Ghanaian district of Anlo, once known for its substantial involvement in the slave trade. A high-walled circular enclosure with a small wooden door, which serves as a narrow entrance, leads the viewer to the…

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Captured Africans-Transatlantic Slave Trade Monument in Lancaster, England. Six rectangular Perspex blocks (acrylic), suspended between a rectangular, stainless-steel column and an oblong, stone column, rests on a circular base embellished with a mosaic and small metal sculptures. The work is meant to recall the decks of the transatlantic slave ships that carried enslaved Africans to the Americas.
Six rectangular Perspex blocks (acrylic), suspended between a rectangular, stainless-steel column and an oblong, stone column, rests on a circular base embellished with a mosaic and small metal sculptures. The work is meant to recall the decks of the…

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Kumbukumbu Ya Historia Ya Watumwa/Memory for the Slaves memorial in Stone Town, Zanzibar, includes five nude torsos of enslaved Africans. Their rough and pebbled texture resemble the stones that fill the concrete pit that surround them. The five cast concrete figures, all but one of whom are chained around the neck, are located on the site of the last slave market in Africa.
Created by the Swedish artist Clara Sörnäs at the Bagamoyo Arts and Cultural Institute, the monument includes five nude torsos of enslaved Africans who emerge from stone pillars. The surface of the pillars is rough and a pebbled texture that…

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Built in 1776, La Maison des Esclaves, was a detention center for captured Africans who were destined to be sold as slaves. In 1962 the home was established as a museum dedicated to telling the “personal stories of a private home and the role of its owners in both local business and the slave trade.”
The island of Gorée was the site of one of the earliest European settlements in Western Africa and from the fifteenth to the nineteenth century, served as the largest slave-trading site on the African coast. Built in 1776, La Maison des Esclaves, was…

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Located on the sandy shores of Ouidah, Benin, the monumental concrete red, white, and yellow-painted La Porte du Non Retour, and the metal sculptures that flank it, commemorate the horrors of the Transatlantic slave trade. The memorial gate, which marks the point where African captives were forced onto transatlantic slave ships, is connected by a path, known as the “Slave Route,” to the market square, where enslaved people were once sold.
Located on the sandy shores of Ouidah, Benin, the monumental concrete painted red and yellow and the metal sculptures that flank it, commemorate the horrors of the transatlantic slave trade. The memorial gate, which marks the point where African…

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The Memorial Cap 110 in Martinique overlooks the sea and 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 concrete figures.
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…

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The Middle Passage Monument in St. Croix (USVI) is a twelve-foot-high memorial composed of two large, thick aluminum arcs that bend towards each another but do not touch. The color has a silvery-gray tone and a matte surface etched with scratch-like patterns.
The twelve-foot-high memorial is composed of two large, thick aluminum arcs that bend towards each another but do not touch. The color has a silvery-gray tone and a matte surface etched with scratch-like patterns. It is installed on the grassy…

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The Never Again Statue in Gambia is 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.
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,…

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The Reconciliation Memorial in Liverpool is made up iron torsos of two abstracted figures, engaged in a tight embrace, emerge from a rectangular iron base. Two other identical sculptures were erected in 1989 in Belfast, Northern Ireland, and Glasgow, Scotland.
The iron torsos of two abstracted figures, engaged in a tight embrace, emerge from a rectangular iron base. Two other identical sculptures were erected in 1989 in Belfast, Northern Ireland, and Glasgow, Scotland. According to the artist, Stephen…

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