{"id":3779,"date":"2020-11-19T08:05:18","date_gmt":"2020-11-19T07:05:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.portail-esclavage-reunion.fr\/?post_type=lieu-de-memoire&#038;p=3779"},"modified":"2020-11-19T08:11:04","modified_gmt":"2020-11-19T07:11:04","slug":"the-slave-mario-and-the-black-madonna","status":"publish","type":"lieu-de-memoire","link":"https:\/\/www.portail-esclavage-reunion.fr\/en\/lieux-de-memoire\/the-slave-mario-and-the-black-madonna\/","title":{"rendered":"Memorial to Edmond Albius"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Location: Sainte-Suzanne \u2013 Le Bocage<br \/>\nDate: 2004<br \/>\nArtist: Jack Beng-Thi<br \/>\nSculpture<br \/>\nBronze<\/p>\n<p>This memorial in honour of the slave Edmond Albius was installed in Le Bocage on 10th May, 2004. It is a tribute to the slave who, at the age of only 12, discovered how to manually fertilise the vanilla plant.<br \/>\nDesigned by artist Jack Beng-Thi, this bronze sculpture represents the slave holding a vanilla liana in his hand. The statue is enclosed within a circular stone wall covered with information boards describing slavery and the slave trade.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2367 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.portail-esclavage-reunion.fr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/IMG_3841b.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"650\" height=\"433\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.portail-esclavage-reunion.fr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/IMG_3841b.jpg 650w, https:\/\/www.portail-esclavage-reunion.fr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/IMG_3841b-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 650px) 100vw, 650px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-2097 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.portail-esclavage-reunion.fr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/IMG_3885b.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.portail-esclavage-reunion.fr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/IMG_3885b.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.portail-esclavage-reunion.fr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/IMG_3885b-200x300.jpg 200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.portail-esclavage-reunion.fr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/IMG_3843b.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3780\" src=\"https:\/\/www.portail-esclavage-reunion.fr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/IMG_3843b.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"650\" height=\"433\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.portail-esclavage-reunion.fr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/IMG_3843b.jpg 650w, https:\/\/www.portail-esclavage-reunion.fr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/IMG_3843b-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 650px) 100vw, 650px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":2094,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"template":"","class_list":["post-3779","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\/3779","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\/2094"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portail-esclavage-reunion.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3779"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}