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

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. She was hanged and her body was burned on the place de l'Eglise on the 8th of February 1822. The work represents the Negress Gertrude climbing out of her place of servitude, overwhelmed with grief but her arm raised, clenched fist, marking her will to fight.