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Statues and plaques in homage to Anne Marie Javouhey in Mana

Address: 
Mana
Guyana
Management type: 
Plaques
Type: 
Statues
Site overview: 
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.
Keywords: 
Commemoration
Emancipation
Memories of slavery
Slave ancestry