NANTES, France — On the banks of the Loire River in this port city, students come almost every day to see France’s only memorial to slaves brought by French ships to the New World. Gray steps lead ...
INTRODUCTION OF SLAVERY—THE SLAVE-TRADE-AFRICAN TRIBES — THE CODE NOIR-THE MULATTOES. IT will be necessary for the present to omit the story of the settlement and growth of the French Colony, and of ...
Once France’s largest slave-trading ports now confronts its past through one of Europe’s most significant memorials. Along the banks of the Loire, the Memorial to the Abolition of Slavery in Nantes ...
As statues of slave traders and colonial figures tumble worldwide in a wave of anger against racism, Bordeaux wants to inform the public with a different tactic. Bordeaux was the second biggest slave ...
Around the triangle -- The slave trade in the Enlightenment -- The veeritions of history -- Gendering abolitionism -- Olympe de Gouges, "earwitness to the ills of America" -- Madame de Staël, Mirza, ...
Artist Marcus Brown’s “Slavery Trails” sculptures don’t exist in the real world. But if you stand beneath the oaks on Esplanade Avenue on the edge of the French Quarter and activate your iPhone with a ...
Click to open image viewer. CC0 Usage Conditions ApplyClick for more information. Although the Atlantic slave trade was abolished in 1808, some slavers continued to illegally buy slaves in Africa and ...
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