{"id":3687,"date":"2020-11-18T09:25:21","date_gmt":"2020-11-18T08:25:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.portail-esclavage-reunion.fr\/?post_type=lieu-de-memoire&#038;p=3687"},"modified":"2021-03-02T11:22:31","modified_gmt":"2021-03-02T10:22:31","slug":"slave-memorial","status":"publish","type":"lieu-de-memoire","link":"https:\/\/www.portail-esclavage-reunion.fr\/en\/lieux-de-memoire\/slave-memorial\/","title":{"rendered":"Slave Memorial"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Place: Entre-Deux &#8211; Place de la mairie (Town Hall Square)<br \/>\nDate: 2000<br \/>\nArtist: Eric Pong\u00e9rard<br \/>\nSculpture<br \/>\nStone<\/p>\n<p>Inaugurated on 20th December 2000, this work represents the first of seven elements of a large memorial in memory of the slaves. It is the first stage of a journey leading up to the summit of Dimitile, the highest place on the island where slaves would escape, a place of remembrance which is steeped in history.<br \/>\nThis sculpture is the work of artist \u00c9ric Pong\u00e9rard. On a granite slab with the names of slaves engraved, stands a stacked column made of horizontal rocks, fused in mortar. An excerpt from a poem by Boris Gamaleya is carved in a stone placed at its base: \u2018Leaving the rock, the song takes flight\u2019.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"taille-initiale alignnone wp-image-2024 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.portail-esclavage-reunion.fr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/IMG_6927b-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"433\" height=\"650\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.portail-esclavage-reunion.fr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/IMG_6927b-1.jpg 433w, https:\/\/www.portail-esclavage-reunion.fr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/IMG_6927b-1-200x300.jpg 200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 433px) 100vw, 433px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.portail-esclavage-reunion.fr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/IMG_6930b.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-4779\" src=\"https:\/\/www.portail-esclavage-reunion.fr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/IMG_6930b.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"650\" height=\"433\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.portail-esclavage-reunion.fr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/IMG_6930b.jpg 650w, https:\/\/www.portail-esclavage-reunion.fr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/IMG_6930b-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 650px) 100vw, 650px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":2021,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"template":"","class_list":["post-3687","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\/3687","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\/2021"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portail-esclavage-reunion.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3687"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}