{"id":3678,"date":"2020-11-18T08:46:13","date_gmt":"2020-11-18T07:46:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.portail-esclavage-reunion.fr\/?post_type=lieu-de-memoire&#038;p=3678"},"modified":"2021-03-01T12:31:56","modified_gmt":"2021-03-01T11:31:56","slug":"memorial-to-our-founding-fatherszetwal-la-souvenans","status":"publish","type":"lieu-de-memoire","link":"https:\/\/www.portail-esclavage-reunion.fr\/en\/lieux-de-memoire\/memorial-to-our-founding-fatherszetwal-la-souvenans\/","title":{"rendered":"Memorial to our founding fathers<br\/><em>Zetwal la Souvenans<\/em>"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Place: Saint-Paul \u2013 Sailor\u2019s Cemetery<br \/>\nDate: 2013<br \/>\nArtist: Jack Beng Thi<br \/>\nSculpture<br \/>\nIron \u2013 Stone<\/p>\n<p>This slave memorial known as \u2018Memorial to our founding fathers<em> &#8211; Zetwal la Souvenans<\/em>\u2019 was the work of sculptor Jack Beng Thi, and was inaugurated in December 2013 near the Sailor\u2019s Cemetery in Saint-Paul, close to the sea.<\/p>\n<p>It is made up of two sections: stone plots symbolising the graves of skeletons exposed following the heavy seas of cyclone Gam\u00e8de in 2007, and a large iron portico. On the side facing the ocean, there is a scene depicting slaves on a slave ship. On the other side, facing the mountain, there is a poem by the artist describing the slaves\u2019 suffering.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2301\" src=\"https:\/\/www.portail-esclavage-reunion.fr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/IMG_7141b.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"650\" height=\"433\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.portail-esclavage-reunion.fr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/IMG_7141b.jpg 650w, https:\/\/www.portail-esclavage-reunion.fr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/IMG_7141b-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 650px) 100vw, 650px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-2303 size-full aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.portail-esclavage-reunion.fr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/IMG_7171b.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"433\" height=\"650\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.portail-esclavage-reunion.fr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/IMG_7171b.jpg 433w, https:\/\/www.portail-esclavage-reunion.fr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/IMG_7171b-200x300.jpg 200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 433px) 100vw, 433px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2305 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.portail-esclavage-reunion.fr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/IMG_7181b.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"433\" height=\"650\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.portail-esclavage-reunion.fr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/IMG_7181b.jpg 433w, https:\/\/www.portail-esclavage-reunion.fr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/IMG_7181b-200x300.jpg 200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 433px) 100vw, 433px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":2300,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"template":"","class_list":["post-3678","lieu-de-memoire","type-lieu-de-memoire","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portail-esclavage-reunion.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/lieu-de-memoire\/3678","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portail-esclavage-reunion.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/lieu-de-memoire"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portail-esclavage-reunion.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/lieu-de-memoire"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portail-esclavage-reunion.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portail-esclavage-reunion.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2300"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portail-esclavage-reunion.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3678"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}