Plaque, Memorial de l'Abolition de l'Esclavage, Nantes
Engraved glass plate by Emmanuel Barrois and Krzysztof Wodiczko, in 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. In the ground are set 2000 of these glass plates, commemorating elements of the slave trade - this one remembers Ma Bretonne, a slave ship which departed Nantes in 1824. Nantes was an important trading port, profiting from the slave trade from 17th - 19th century. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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