Memories of slavery

The statues and memorial plaques paying tribute to Anne-Marie Javouhey were installed in Mana, where the sister freed 185 slaves in 1838, 10 years before the abolition of slavery.

The sculpture in homage to Victor Schœlcher in Guyana is a bronze statue created between 1896 and 1897 by the French sculptor Louis-Ernest Barrias, and melted by Gustave Leblanc-Barbedienne.

Located Place de la Victoire in Pointe-à-Pitre, the mural “Émeutes de mai 1967 en Guadeloupe » (Riots of May 1967 in Guadeloupe” commemorates the 1967 riots, brutally repressed by the police. A thous

A monument paying tribute to Gertrude was erected on the square Gertrude. Gertrude was a slave who was accused of poisoning someone in the habitation Fougères, in Petit-Bourg.

The memorial in homage to the slaves in Saint-François was inaugurated on the 27th of May 1998, for the 150th anniversary of the abolition of slavery.

Located near the Fort Delgrès, the memorial Louis Delgrès was erected during the bicentennial of the rebellion, in 2002.

A monument commemorating the sacrifice of Louis Delgrès and his companions was erected in 1948, on the occasion of the centenary of the abolition of slavery, in Grand Parc Matouba, Guadeloupe.