Memorial de l'Abolition de l'Esclavage, Nantes, France
Engraved glass plate by Emmanuel Barrois and Krzysztof Wodiczko, 1 of 2000, remembering L'Africain, a slave ship which departed Nantes in 1785, set into the ground at the Memorial de l'Abolition de l'Esclavage, or Memorial to the Abolition of Slavery, inaugurated 25th March 2012, on the Quai de la Fosse, a port quay along the right bank of the river Loire in the centre of Nantes, Pays de la Loire, France. Nantes was an important trading port, profiting from the slave trade from 17th - 19th century. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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