https://www.afro-mnemonics.net/home daily 1.0 2025-06-04 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/66805db310966a095a5938e9/7cb44248-5521-4f84-a828-458f636bb88c/Well+of+atonement+interior++copy.jpg Home Interior view of Well of Atonement/Well of Forgetting: The water in the well was tainted with a tranquilizer to prepare the women, children and men deportees. for the Journey to the Point of No Return. Badagry, Nigeria https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/66805db310966a095a5938e9/de0280f8-a7ff-4f83-8836-51a9951bdf38/Fig.++44+DR2a_Ingenio+de+Boca+Nigua.JPG Home No official marker recognizes the Ingenio Boca de Nigua/Chigger, the sugar mill owned by the son of Christopher Columbus, Diego Colón. It was burnt down in 1521 during the first revolt in the Americas led by 20+ Senegambian people. San Gregorio, Dominican Republic https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/66805db310966a095a5938e9/4af656c2-b6c8-4811-9d9f-030727f8105a/IMG_5172.jpg Home Exterior view of Well of Atonement/Well of Forgetting located in the Velekete Slave Market holding yard: Badagry, Nigeria https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/66805db310966a095a5938e9/1ebd7702-b334-492d-8aad-c081abd6a5bb/Fig.+5+GI27_Christopher+Columbus+Spain.jpg Home Miradór de Colom/The Vantage Point of Columbia (detail) Barcelona, Spain. Among the hundreds of statutes of Christopher Columbus found around the world. he is valorized by the State but detested by Indigenous and Africans as a genocider. His crimes are not noted on his monuments. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/66805db310966a095a5938e9/a8724ad8-3a2b-498d-9e52-6bdf664cebbe/IMG_3714+2.JPG Home Cap 110: Mémorie et Fraternité created by Laurent Valere, commemorate the tragic event of 3 April 1830 where some 200 Africans being clandestinely trafficked lost their lives in the bay of Point Diamonde. It was unveiled at the 150th anniversary of the abolition of slavery in 1998. ''Anne Caffard, Martinique https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/66805db310966a095a5938e9/608f2cb5-d04a-4659-9eb9-2db8c75a84fe/IMG_9320.JPG Home On the side of Martin's Bank, a bas-relief detail of children who represent not only enslaved African but also the future of England : the wealth that would continue to be made via financing the sell of Africans https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/66805db310966a095a5938e9/1719691066840-SYRI1FTGCP5T7NBEZX3N/Arbre+de+Retour%2C+Benin+2012.JPG Home The Tree of Return or Abre de Retour, centuries old is the living tree behind the painted cement statue. The tree is a mnemonic device intended to bring the souls of Africans perished in the Great Suffering back to their homeland. Ouidah, Benin Republic https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/66805db310966a095a5938e9/7ef6d2ab-e5e2-446f-b30e-f2220912a0fb/IMG_9321.JPG Home https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/66805db310966a095a5938e9/72295297-598a-4eee-8ebb-1e2404cb80f2/IMG_1588.jpeg Home Freedom Flotilla marchers light a fire at a beach (Bight of Benin) where their predecessors took their last steps on the African continent before crossing the Atlantic Ocean. The fire is set to allow their souls to find their way home, back to their motherland. Lagos, Nigeria https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/66805db310966a095a5938e9/6e064396-35fa-4ebc-991a-89a3901ba9eb/Africa+Group_+detail%2C+London.jpg Home The representation of a sub-Saharan, youth, is among the figures representing the African continent of the Albert Monument. His placement among the grouping of statutes presents him as naive and still in search of guidance. Intended to be marginalized and obscured, it is extremely difficult to see and shoot the face of the figure. London, England https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/66805db310966a095a5938e9/e4cf87e5-d679-404b-a409-212bb66c1c10/IMG_0986.JPG Home Overview of the, Monument to the 1823 Demerara Rebellion, which is located near the Demerara River. Georgetown, Guyana https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/66805db310966a095a5938e9/5d3be059-1301-4dce-82a8-841db730e87f/IMG_8461.jpeg Home Actors, dancers and musicians at the Phillipsburg Manor recreate the Pinkster Day celebrations. The former plantation is now a museum that highlights the lives of the 23 enslaved Africans who labored at the site during its years of operation after 1750. Sleepy Hollow, New York, USA https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/66805db310966a095a5938e9/d901c586-f199-4ac3-b84b-7b1ef7125633/IMG_0962.jpeg Home Detail of the, Monument to the 1823 Demerara Rebellion. Some 9,000-12,000 enslaved people fought for their full emancipation. Demerara was initially a 17th century Dutch colony. Taken over by the British and then returned to the Dutch. Greater Guyana was under the control of various European colonizers including the French. Georgetown, Guyana https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/66805db310966a095a5938e9/028cf82c-b70e-43ed-a213-f422652d78e8/ENG2_Royal+Albert+Monument%3AAfrica.jpeg Home Royal Albert Monument includes a group representing the continent of Africa. The face of the Black African is not readily visible to the public. It's position re-enforces the invisibility of Africans within the British Emperor following the "scramble for Africa" -- that culminated in the Berlin-Congo Conference of 1883-1884. London. England https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/66805db310966a095a5938e9/660c1304-b4c8-4869-a43b-7548d838ea7d/Fig.+38a+CAN6_Black+Loyalist+Heritage+Trial+woods_A.jpg Home The woods of Nova Scotia harbored the newly arrived Black Loyalists. Africans who fought on the side of the British during the American Revolution 1775-1776. Birchtown, Nova Scotia, Canada https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/66805db310966a095a5938e9/a97a62d6-c337-4a60-ae01-3026d9ad719d/IMG_3616.jpeg Home The annual March to the Duty of Memory occurs every January on the route of captured and enslaved Africans in Ouidah, Benin https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/66805db310966a095a5938e9/7fca7b5e-7133-4255-8b43-c75184c83938/IMG_8813.JPG Home Detail of the National Museum of African American Culture & History by David Adjaye. A reflection of the George Washington Monument is visible on its skin. An ironic juxtaposition given the first president of the United States of America was one of several slave owners to hold office. Washington, DC, USA https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/66805db310966a095a5938e9/368345bf-5371-462e-919f-db551915f2e5/IMG_5960.jpeg Home Vodousyan prepare to dance at the Presidential Palace in Cotonou, Benin https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/66805db310966a095a5938e9/7897ad72-6e19-4954-a95c-67d4afbedd4b/IMG_1259.JPG Home "Ancestral Chambers" National Museum of African American Culture & History, Smithsonian Institute, Washington DC, USA https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/66805db310966a095a5938e9/e2b4a524-c142-46c1-bc87-996bf77a22ad/IMG_2962.JPG Home A temporary creation by an unknown artist recognizes the lives of largely unknown Africans buried in a mass grave. On a hill just above the site, was a hospital. Clothes pins and ribbons with African names were attached to a nylon filament and wrapped around the tree in their memory Richmond, Virginia https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/66805db310966a095a5938e9/ba82f6aa-1303-47d9-8d6d-791bcb5561eb/Fig.++91+US29_Whitney+Plantation+Slave+Shack+2018.jpeg Home "Little House with a Picket Fence": Among the slave quaters at the Whitney Planation Slavery Museum: Edgard, Louisiana https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/66805db310966a095a5938e9/a1800f25-4cf8-4c00-9509-43d4204478cf/IMG_1366.jpeg Home Remnants of a former prison cell in the renamed, Freedom Park. Lagos, Nigeria. the sign at the park does not mention the prison or barracoon of enslaved Africans and later political prisoners. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/66805db310966a095a5938e9/691e3b58-1637-4c77-9ca5-e00080f33e4c/Taking+the+canoes+to+Cabo+Corso+.jpeg Home Hundreds of African descendants gather for a pilgrimage to the dungeons of Cabo Corso Castle during Ghana's 2019 Year of Return. Cape Coast, Ghana https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/66805db310966a095a5938e9/7c9b1718-368e-47ca-b36a-baaa1f9e707e/IMG_3932.jpeg Home "Stolen Memories," memorializes a brick removed from the "fattening bins" aka the Barracoons. Such human warehouse were the ugly twin of the horrendous holding cells and dungeons African captives were forcibly housed in on both sides of the Atlantic. Savannah, Georgia https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/66805db310966a095a5938e9/264ae85e-4f79-4498-877a-f5de6aec7157/Fig.++99+++++++++US13_+Underground+Railroad+cave+Peekskill+NY.JPG Home Deep in the northeastern woods, on the estate of Henry Ward Beecher (brother of American novelist, Harriet Beecher Stowe) is a cave, that was part of the Underground Railroad network. It provided passage and shelter for freedom seekers until the 1827 abolition of African enslavement in New York State. Peekskill, New York, USA https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/66805db310966a095a5938e9/1d748dd7-b941-4bce-a915-7023dd04be85/IMG_9505.JPG Home https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/66805db310966a095a5938e9/d09a62c8-7760-4399-b4fc-8b6e023834cb/+Fig.+58++++++++++GUY1_East+Wall%2C+Guyana.jpeg Home Found below sea-level, the 280 miles long, (East) Sea Wall was a public work project imposed upon and built by Africans to protect the Dutch town from the swellings waters of the Atlantic. Africans were deported to the South American country in the 17th century: Georgetown, Guyana https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/66805db310966a095a5938e9/592daf2d-23d5-4f48-b06f-0718f7978eb5/IMG_9504.JPG Home https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/66805db310966a095a5938e9/00fb936e-85e7-4e32-89bf-5fbf4b11c3e0/IMG_9766.JPG Home New York Stock Exchange, the wealth of slave trading nations was traded and sold at such places., New York, USA https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/66805db310966a095a5938e9/986c8e22-b7da-446a-8d49-5009ce044ade/IMG_9750.JPG Home The statute of President George Washington stands atop the stairs once used as a trading block to sell enslaved Africans. It is part of the complex of the New York Stock Exchange. New York, USA https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/66805db310966a095a5938e9/7ea016c2-e488-449c-88c3-2d468665203f/IMG_0322.JPG Home https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/66805db310966a095a5938e9/79ec1f92-73dd-4582-97ac-3457f35e7d6b/IMG_2820.JPG Home A rare ground level view of the exposed bed and walls of Canal Walk, a public works project built with exploited African labor at the Shockoe Bottom. Richmond, Virginia, USA https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/66805db310966a095a5938e9/0a8f7b3c-7378-4fa8-9d61-df1f780c335f/IMG_0312.JPG Home https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/66805db310966a095a5938e9/f3db1d34-b27b-443d-a9a8-7ac7bcc9a6ac/IMG_1673.JPG Home Narrow window opening at the Children's Cell at the Maison des Eslave, Ile de Gorée, Senegal https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/66805db310966a095a5938e9/bb71c6d3-b8d3-4fc5-a78e-880890ac7a6e/IMG_1917.JPG Home "In the Memory Of" The tombstone of Maria Elizabeth Stowe 1822-1842 located at the Graveyard for Slave and Free Blacks. Located at St. Peter's Church, in was in operation for 200 years between the late 1600's to the 1800s. Africans were segregated for whites even in dead. The site is part of the UNESCO African Diaspora Heritage Trail. St. George's, Bermuda https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/66805db310966a095a5938e9/b3ba1f47-6125-46e3-be43-16d2e2130c0e/IMG_0329.JPG Home https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/66805db310966a095a5938e9/984e0600-47ec-40f7-8ab1-6c65b000d561/IMG_1674.JPG Home Signage of the Children's Cell at the Maison des Esclaves, Ile de Gorée. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/66805db310966a095a5938e9/1720573105052-AAFOBA8026CN3VWX9KO7/%2BUN%2Bmemorial%2Bto%2Bthe%2BLegccy%2Bof%2BSlzvery%2B.jpg Home United Nations Permanent Memorial to the Victims of Slavery & Transatlantic Slave Trade. Designed by Rodney Leon, The "Arc of Return" is part of the call and response African descendants engage in the effort to reclaim spaces of memory. UN Headquarters, New York City https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/66805db310966a095a5938e9/48daaa9e-b600-4e2f-bcc5-759f8a8b230d/IMG_0346.JPG Home https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/66805db310966a095a5938e9/8e165175-1bea-473f-a635-85460bc99e50/IMG_2221.JPG Home Children of African descent were forced into the hard labor of plantation life. Seated inside a church, we see 4 of the dozens of life-size depictions of the numerous children who worked the plantation. They remind us of the thousands of children who worked and died in the south. Whitney Plantation Slavery Museum. Egard, Louisiana, USA https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/66805db310966a095a5938e9/26042d33-a1b3-490f-8ba2-05f64e5050a8/IMG_0348.JPG Home https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/66805db310966a095a5938e9/bca4e5b2-52c0-4f2b-a05b-b0836a50214b/IMG_2358.JPG Home More of the "Children of Whitney" sculptures created by artist, Woodrow Nash at the Whitney Plantation Slavery Museum. Often fully employed by the age of 10, these painted terra cotta figures honor the lives of the 39 children who died at the plantation between 1823-1863. Egard, Louisiana https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/66805db310966a095a5938e9/f0a8a939-8c7a-410e-9544-6e913e9261c9/IMG_1621.JPG Home https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/66805db310966a095a5938e9/362b6cc0-837b-4ab2-92ab-6bb38f935f59/IMG_7814.jpeg Home Saint Domingue/Haiti contributed enormously to the great wealth of France which was evident in the numerous palaces of the country. One of the multitude of lush rooms at the Chateau Fontainebleau. Fontainebleau, France https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/66805db310966a095a5938e9/7e2c12a2-ef41-41f5-8927-d5773c425dbd/IMG_0958.jpeg Home One of the few depictions of a Black woman actively resisting enslavement. She is depicted on the base of the, Monument of 1823, Demerara Rebellion (detail). Georgetown, Guyana https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/66805db310966a095a5938e9/609629c3-ca70-4bb8-9840-00ca19dafb5f/IMG_1771.JPG Home https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/66805db310966a095a5938e9/ed333747-a94d-4519-9f0f-aa01bf66b6a2/IMG_2258.JPG Home https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/66805db310966a095a5938e9/f84f79f3-0661-4ee8-a8b8-57011bf704aa/IMG_2582.JPG Home https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/66805db310966a095a5938e9/2285319b-1de9-47e0-a8af-90d22f900566/IMG_2952.JPG Home https://www.afro-mnemonics.net/editorial daily 0.75 2024-11-16 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/66805db310966a095a5938e9/7f09ee9f-f9c7-4c14-a277-042e71e916ed/IMG_3139.JPG Vodou https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/66805db310966a095a5938e9/7ce9e2ba-cdf5-4d9f-be56-626671039622/IMG_3146.JPG Vodou https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/66805db310966a095a5938e9/e335db1b-153e-4861-ac0a-089fa6624ce9/IMG_3158.JPG Vodou https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/66805db310966a095a5938e9/c8a0b1f6-3a9c-4e6f-aa90-6614f15fb2fe/IMG_3234.JPG Vodou https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/66805db310966a095a5938e9/97b7b650-c46c-4a6b-9854-2f0e39f7233c/IMG_3376.JPG Vodou https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/66805db310966a095a5938e9/2d1eb03d-dd34-4fe7-8e6c-4ab6d9b95ac0/IMG_0129.jpeg Vodou https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/66805db310966a095a5938e9/164a2323-e976-441e-b597-042454a9f527/IMG_1245.jpeg Vodou https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/66805db310966a095a5938e9/f240db16-c3b6-486c-a085-c990a44b7f84/IMG_0074.jpeg Vodou https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/66805db310966a095a5938e9/f89e947b-2e36-4790-8da4-6b9d97846e29/IMG_0097.jpeg Vodou https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/66805db310966a095a5938e9/f00a7b5c-80b3-45b5-8a13-3b0996e8cf8c/IMG_0154.JPG Vodou https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/66805db310966a095a5938e9/ecaf4f9c-1e7d-47b0-92cd-10afb21f5bd9/IMG_0588.JPG Vodou https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/66805db310966a095a5938e9/dc41e882-e3cf-449a-bc68-482e26d691b6/IMG_1194.jpeg Vodou https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/66805db310966a095a5938e9/5a76c447-afc0-4ebf-9d52-a60a47ecdb03/IMG_1129.JPG Vodou https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/66805db310966a095a5938e9/ec4d154c-e141-4edb-89ec-f1f32becd0a0/IMG_1056.jpeg Vodou https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/66805db310966a095a5938e9/c0d4d0c5-3b08-4344-b2c5-ea39850fb7e6/IMG_1108.jpeg Vodou https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/66805db310966a095a5938e9/4e17a3cb-6aa8-401b-87f9-5f2b3657632c/IMG_1170.jpeg Vodou https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/66805db310966a095a5938e9/f40a8d8c-10dd-4e2f-a766-4949ea952455/IMG_4778.JPG Vodou https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/66805db310966a095a5938e9/5aca0a4c-0f4f-45a7-93b1-37dcf86c63c3/IMG_4681.JPG Vodou https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/66805db310966a095a5938e9/48eba5c6-c5bb-4a9d-9374-6ed1c2f9c30f/IMG_0740.jpeg Vodou In memorial of the late Rastafarian queen, Mere Jah (d. 2024), together with her widower Pere Jah, were among the eldest Diasporic Africans to repatriate to the African continent. They chose Benin, Republic as their home. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/66805db310966a095a5938e9/e196b9db-b16a-41c2-a2bf-7015974eabc2/Nigerian+Preiest+Freedom+Flotilla+.jpg Vodou In Nigeria Babalawos and other spiritual leaders are pouring libations to commemorate predecessors vanquished in the Maafa. https://www.afro-mnemonics.net/architecture daily 0.75 2024-11-16 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/66805db310966a095a5938e9/6718fb2a-5a89-476a-b502-864ecc49a1d2/IMG_7914.jpg Wòch kase The towering Christopher Columbus column was installed to commemorate the 400th anniversary of the "discovery of America." Contested by indigenous, African and other people-of-color in the Americas, many monuments of his image have been removed. Fabricated by A. Wohlguemuth, this piece was installed in 1887. Barcelona, Spain https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/66805db310966a095a5938e9/f7fd7a3a-8920-476c-9ee3-4b0e1596d4de/BEL3_African+balcony+at+Rue+de+la+Colline%3AHeuvelstraat.jpeg Wòch kase At the prominent La Grand Place plaza, two ornate carvings of young African males are seen carrying the load of the balcony on the facade of a building . The sculptures speak to the perception of Africans in Belgium society pre-late 20th Century. Brussels, Belgium https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/66805db310966a095a5938e9/0cc2afa4-5917-438d-af74-97ef11d45980/BEL1_Le+Roi+Leopold.jpeg Wòch kase King Leopold II (1865-1909) the callous, brutish ruler of Belgium used the vast territory of the Congo Free State (1885-19080 as his personal playground. He was responsible for the death and maiming of 5 -10 million Congolese in the 19th-20th centuries. In 2020 his statute was defaced and toppled from its base as an effrontery to the victims of racism and colonialism. Brussels, Belgium. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/66805db310966a095a5938e9/f08032c1-1b2f-41fb-94a8-099c125bb454/BEN+Port+de+Non-Retour+detail+1+.jpeg Wòch kase Detail of enslaved captives from the Port-de-Non-Retour in Ouidah, Benin. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/66805db310966a095a5938e9/82103f1f-81db-47c4-8508-83d183e022b4/BEN5_La+Porte+de+Non-Retour%2C+Ouidah.jpeg Wòch kase "Door of No-Return," Is the collaborative work of three artists. Ouidah, Benin https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/66805db310966a095a5938e9/3557711f-2d16-4049-9870-935d52d6bd54/ENG7_+International+Slavery+Museum+int.jpeg Wòch kase Interior view at the entrance of the International Slavery Museum, the first of its kind in Liverpool, England. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/66805db310966a095a5938e9/3ce3662b-023d-41b7-9c10-a21343df24b2/FR4_Toussaint%27s+Cell+in+Fort+de+Joux+2012.JPG Wòch kase Inside the cell of Haitian General Governor Toussaint l'Ouverture at, Fort de Joux are a a cot, small cabinet, and fireplace. After being deceived by French commanders, l'Ouverture was kidnapped and delivered to this prison cell bordering the Swiss Alps where he perished from cold and famine in 1803. Clois de Pontarlier, France https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/66805db310966a095a5938e9/cc3e30ed-e940-44de-b0f6-df08e37815cc/Fig.+++USA_Swing+Low%3A+Harriet+Minty+Tubman+2008.jpg Wòch kase Alison Saar sculpted the, Homage to Harriet Minty Tubman. The bronze sculpture is surrounded by decorative trees and bushes, harkening the many forests she traversed. The celebrated "Conductor of the Underground Railroad", US soldier, and spy has her likeness facing South in Harlem. New York, USA https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/66805db310966a095a5938e9/24b6616e-a870-47b8-a859-54b3a7ffde5a/JAM1+_+Redemption+Song+in+Eman+Pk+.jpg Wòch kase Gracing Emancipation Park in Kingston is a couple highlighting the role that men and women played in the struggles for liberty by Afro-Jamaican peoples. Actually a fountain, the piece is named after a song written by the late national hero of the island, Bob Marley: "Redemption Song." Kingston, Jamaica https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/66805db310966a095a5938e9/04f45ece-c2ca-4f59-ba35-fd3677697eb1/BEN6_King+Behanzin+2015.jpg Wòch kase Honoring the Axosu Gbéhanzon Hossu Bowelle, is the Statute du Roi Gbèhanzin, Place Goho (1845-1906). Often referred to as the last king of Danxome, the King was an anti-colonialist who fought against the French with his all female army. He was exiled to Martinique in 1892. Abomey, Benin. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/66805db310966a095a5938e9/497a9fac-cf5c-4e35-bf28-62249bb0606d/DEN1_I+am+Queen+Mary.jpg Wòch kase "I Am Queen Mary" one of the few statues to, and of women resistance leaders, is located in Denmark. Queen Mary (1848-1905) was one of three rebel women who lead the 1878 Fireburn of St. Croix. it is the creation of two women artists: Jeannette Ehlers and La Vaugh Belle. Copenhagen, Denmark. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/66805db310966a095a5938e9/c3ae60fa-21dd-49ec-8078-ed0a409f2281/BRA3_Zumbi+dos+Palmares+.jpg Wòch kase The leader of the self-sustaining kilombo of Palamares is commemorated with a bronze statute. The work, "Homenagem ao Zumbi dos Palmares" is the creation of Márcia Magno and was unveiled in 2008. Unfortunately his chief strategist/warrior and wife Dandara dos Palamares has no official commemorative marker. Salvador do Bahia, Brazil https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/66805db310966a095a5938e9/db9c15f8-8944-4e4c-99da-a6f2c517c8f0/BER3_Cobbs+Church%2C+Bermuda+2018.jpeg Wòch kase This house of prayer, Cobbs Church was built under the cover of darkness by enslaved Africans in Hamilton, Bermuda. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/66805db310966a095a5938e9/f6779d8a-02a7-46e2-b637-b355befb2dd2/CAN4_Interior+St.+Paul%27s+Church+BLHS+Birchtown+.jpg Wòch kase After getting settled and acclimatized, the descendants of the Black Loyalists who decided to stay in North America constructed their first place of worship in 1888: St Paul's Church. Birch Town, Nova Scotia, Canada https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/66805db310966a095a5938e9/d809e4d6-46d6-4805-bd68-e80cbf782165/POR1_Antigo+Mercado+de+Escravo%2C+Lagos+Portual+2016.jpg Wòch kase The first European enslavers of Africans were the Portuguese, yet no official monument exists in that county to the legacy of enslavement. The Antigo Mercado de Escravos is one of the few known markers of African captivity in the country. Lagos, Portugal https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/66805db310966a095a5938e9/994a8860-9299-4af8-8972-b14f0827f46e/Fig.+HAI1_La+Citadelle+looking+in.JPG Wòch kase Interior of La Citadelle La Ferrière. The most sophisticated military fortresses in the hemisphere, has numerous hidden passages, a heating system and other notable features. Cap-Haitian, Haiti https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/66805db310966a095a5938e9/5c401da4-d455-42e3-af78-f373c2ee811c/HAI1b_Citadelle+interior+steps.JPG Wòch kase A darkened passage of La Citadelle La Ferrière, is heavy with the presence of its former military occupants. Cap-Haitian, Haiti https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/66805db310966a095a5938e9/1ccfdac1-6b5b-4edd-9d14-00a5ac31d7da/Fig.++65++++HAI_Milot+Chapel+Sans+Souci_+Daniel+Victorin+copy.png Wòch kase Another UNESO World Heritage Site is the Royal Chapel, Cathédrale de Milot, of the Palace of San Souci, residence of King Christophe Henri, his wife, Queen Marie Louise Coidavid (1778-1851) and their children. The cathedral's dome was completely destroyed in a fire in 2020. Milot, Haiti https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/66805db310966a095a5938e9/d7343bb1-06a9-46da-8627-138a6823b906/DR2_Ingenio+Boca+de+Nigua.jpg Wòch kase Among of the ruins of the Ingenio de Boca de Nigua, is this small unburned structure. The Ingenio is the site of the first rebellion led by Africans the Americas, 1521. San Cristobal, Dominican Republic https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/66805db310966a095a5938e9/be7236b2-75ca-480a-a6f0-b94ff29a8670/DR1_La+Puerta+de+la+Misericordia.JPG Wòch kase Built in 1543, La Puerta de la Misericordia, was a port of entry for enslaved Africans on the island formerly know as Quisqueya Bohio Ayiti (now shared by the Haitian and Dominican Republics). Now called the, Plaza Patriótica, public memory recalls it was a slave market although official signage indicates otherwise. Cuidad Colonial, Dominican Republic https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/66805db310966a095a5938e9/4503bb26-3eec-4b9f-9248-0e7dc2ad344f/GI14_African+Mediallion+Nantes.jpeg Wòch kase Decorating the exterior of the homes of those who made their wealth selling Africans, and those who boasted of their ties to the what would later be deemed a "crime against humanity," are the portraits of African captives. The images are found at several structures in the largest slave trading city on continental Europe. Nantes, France https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/66805db310966a095a5938e9/bf026ba3-1006-4f3b-ab30-e97bd47100cd/FR7_MemAbolition+of+Slavery%2C+Nantes.jpeg Wòch kase The Memorial to the Abolition of Slavery commemorates the act but manages never to address the crime itself. Unveild amidst great controversy in 2012, it was designed by Krzysztof Wodiczko and Julian Bonder. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/66805db310966a095a5938e9/ce5e243a-f333-4e64-803b-db0044350e8f/IMG_7753.JPG Wòch kase The shameful exploits of the French Kings and Napoleon III are glorified at the Chateau Fontainebleau. This detail, focuses on the semi-circular stairway, is reminiscent of the stairs of the Maison des Esclaves at lle de Gorée, Senegal. Fontainebleau, France https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/66805db310966a095a5938e9/431dcef0-cff3-4872-a30a-18a67777379a/IMG_7826.JPG Wòch kase The obscene wealth of the Chateau Fontainebleau which housed dynasties of French Kings, including King Louis XIV whose edicts imposed the discourse of domination known as the Code Noir, silences how so much of France's wealth was built off the blood and sweat of enslaved Africans in the Caribbean and colonized Africans on the continent. Fontainebleau, France https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/66805db310966a095a5938e9/86bed252-2942-4077-9998-69b9740bfa8a/IMG_9133.JPG Wòch kase A small carving of an African man with lip plates is found on the side of the National Cathedral. Washington, DC, USA https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/66805db310966a095a5938e9/1bca955e-e90e-4e97-83b4-e0465008981c/IMG_9125.JPG Wòch kase The National Cathedral, has two Images of African men on opposite sides of a window. Both measure approximately 8 inches in height by 5.5 inches wide. The African presence, as builders and architects of the US capital is often forgotten. Washington. DC, USA https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/66805db310966a095a5938e9/18af664a-c9c5-4b13-b296-371d0c9c3671/BER5_Monument+to+Sarah+%2522Sally%2522+Bassett+located+Hamilton%2C+Bermuda+2018.jpg Wòch kase Burned alive in 1730 for poisoning those who tormented her when enslaved, the Sarah Sally Bassett Memorial stands at the Parliament House in Hamilton, Bermuda. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/66805db310966a095a5938e9/0d0a93a1-3b71-4442-afe2-a83450075544/Fig.+64a+++HAI2_Les+Heroes+Battle+of+Vertieres.JPG Wòch kase In spite of France's extortion of Haitian wealth and using apportion of monies they demanded as reparations for the loss of "their colony" to build the Eiffel Tower, "Les Heroes" recognized the courage and sacrifices of the men and women of the Haitian Revolution. A rarity in the build environment, it is among the few memorials that recognizes founding mother and fathers of a country. It was built over the course of century and a half, 1803-1953. La Gonaïves, Haiti https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/66805db310966a095a5938e9/c24033ea-1933-443c-99cb-0885562d8c92/US32_VentureSmith+and+Marge+Smith%2C+Conn.jpeg Wòch kase Headstones of Venture Smith (1729-1805) and his wife Meg. The 18th century self-manumitted African was born in Guinea but hailed from a dungeon in Anomabo, Ghana. As he amassed a tremendous amount of land, hiring Blacks and whites to work from him, he witnessed two great Revolutions in his life: The American Revolution 1775-1776, and the Haitian Revolution 1791-1803. 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