Slave ancestry

Musée de Villèle

Domaine Panon-Desbassyns
97435 Saint-Gilles-les-Hauts
Reunion
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The historical Museum of Villèle was established by the Department of La Réunion in 1974 on a vast colonial mansion, the former habitation Panon-Desbassayns. Mrs.

Sculpture of « Fiiman » in Rémire-Montjoly

Rond-Point Adélaïde Tablon
Rémire-Montjoly
Guyana
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The statue, created by the Guyanese artist Lobie Cognac, was inaugurated on the 10th of June 2008 for the 160th anniversary of the abolition of slavery.

Statues and plaques in homage to Anne Marie Javouhey in Mana

Mana
Guyana
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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.

Statue of Victor Schœlcher in Cayenne

Cayenne
Guyana
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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.

Mural painting ‘Émeutes de mai 1967 en Guadeloupe’ - Pointe-à-Pitre

Place de la Victoire
97110 Point-à-Pitre
Guadeloupe
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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

Place and statue paying tribute to the negress Gertrude, Petit-Bourg

Place Gertrude
97170 Petit-Bourg
Guadeloupe
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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.

Memorial in homage to the slaves, Saint-François

Saint-François
97118
United Kingdom
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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.