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Anse Caffard Memorial
Historic site and monument, Statue
in Le Diamant
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The Cap 110 memorial by Laurent Valère, a Martinican artist, was built in 1998 on the initiative of the town of Le Diamant on the occasion of the 150th anniversary of the abolition of slavery.
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A bit of history:
The site was chosen in homage to the victims of the last shipwreck of the slave ship in the history of Martinique. Near Anse Caffard, named after Colonel Jean Caffard, the ship carried slaves and ran aground in a storm on the night of April 8, 1830, when the trade was illegal. The boat was completely destroyed and its name and nationality were never established. Out of nearly 300 individuals, 86 are survivors. 46 bodies were recovered and buried in the cemetery.
The work...A bit of history:
The site was chosen in homage to the victims of the last shipwreck of the slave ship in the history of Martinique. Near Anse Caffard, named after Colonel Jean Caffard, the ship carried slaves and ran aground in a storm on the night of April 8, 1830, when the trade was illegal. The boat was completely destroyed and its name and nationality were never established. Out of nearly 300 individuals, 86 are survivors. 46 bodies were recovered and buried in the cemetery.
The work :
Deposited on the ground it forms a set of fifteen busts of afflicted characters, presented in a tight manner, in triangle. Constructed of reinforced concrete and bleached with sand from Trinidad and Tobago, each statue weighs four tons and is 2.50 metres high. They are oriented at Cape 110 (east-southeast), towards Africa and the Gulf of Guinea, hence their name. All present the same face leaning in the same direction, overwhelmed, eyes lowered towards the land and the sea. They represent the crowd of anonymous victims of the slave trade.
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