Slave ancestry

A stele called 'les Colonnes de la liberté' ('The Columns of Liberty'), dedicated to the memory of the enslaved and the abolition of slavery and the slave trade, was officially ina

In 2005, the Republic of Haiti donated a statue of Toussaint Louverture to the city of Bordeaux.

Set in the historical heart of Nantes, the Château des Ducs de Bretagne is one of the key-monument representing the heritage of the city, (as well as the St. Pierre Cathedral).

The Château de Joux (Jura) was a state prison where Toussaint Louverture was imprisoned. Louverture was the first black general in the French army.

Designed by Max Relouzat, the President of the Association "Mémoires des Esclavages” (Memories of Slaveries) and sculpted by the Quimper artist Marc Morvan, "Mémoires" (Memories) is a s

Inaugurated on the 23rd of May 2006, the monument represents a black woman embracing a black man who, facing her, raises his arms and breaks his chains.