{"id":3804,"date":"2020-11-19T11:05:33","date_gmt":"2020-11-19T10:05:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.portail-esclavage-reunion.fr\/?post_type=lieu-de-memoire&#038;p=3804"},"modified":"2021-03-02T12:31:36","modified_gmt":"2021-03-02T11:31:36","slug":"monument-to-slavery","status":"publish","type":"lieu-de-memoire","link":"https:\/\/www.portail-esclavage-reunion.fr\/en\/lieux-de-memoire\/monument-to-slavery\/","title":{"rendered":"Monument to Slavery"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Place: Saint-Paul &#8211; Place de l\u2019appel du 18 juin<br \/>\nDate: 2012<br \/>\nArtist: Nelson Boyer<br \/>\nSculpture<br \/>\nStone<\/p>\n<p>Lhis sculpture commemorating resistance to slavery was inaugurated on 15th April, 2012, in memory of the only major slave revolt on Bourbon Island which took place one hundred years before. Located in the \u2018Place de l&#8217;appel du 18 juin\u2019, it was created by Nelson Boyer.<br \/>\nThis imposing and massive work was sculpted from a single block of basalt, representing the figure of Elie and his brothers in combat who were executed in 1812, after their arrest and conviction for the part they played in the Saint-Leu rebellion.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2325\" src=\"https:\/\/www.portail-esclavage-reunion.fr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/IMG_6964b.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"433\" height=\"650\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.portail-esclavage-reunion.fr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/IMG_6964b.jpg 433w, https:\/\/www.portail-esclavage-reunion.fr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/IMG_6964b-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=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2327\" src=\"https:\/\/www.portail-esclavage-reunion.fr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/IMG_6981b.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"650\" height=\"433\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.portail-esclavage-reunion.fr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/IMG_6981b.jpg 650w, https:\/\/www.portail-esclavage-reunion.fr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/IMG_6981b-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=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2329\" src=\"https:\/\/www.portail-esclavage-reunion.fr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/IMG_6978b.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"433\" height=\"650\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.portail-esclavage-reunion.fr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/IMG_6978b.jpg 433w, https:\/\/www.portail-esclavage-reunion.fr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/IMG_6978b-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=\"aligncenter wp-image-3807 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.portail-esclavage-reunion.fr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/IMG_6970b.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"433\" height=\"650\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.portail-esclavage-reunion.fr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/IMG_6970b.jpg 433w, https:\/\/www.portail-esclavage-reunion.fr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/IMG_6970b-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=\"aligncenter wp-image-3809 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.portail-esclavage-reunion.fr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/IMG_6969b.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"433\" height=\"650\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.portail-esclavage-reunion.fr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/IMG_6969b.jpg 433w, https:\/\/www.portail-esclavage-reunion.fr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/IMG_6969b-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=\"aligncenter wp-image-3807 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.portail-esclavage-reunion.fr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/IMG_6970b.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"433\" height=\"650\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.portail-esclavage-reunion.fr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/IMG_6970b.jpg 433w, https:\/\/www.portail-esclavage-reunion.fr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/IMG_6970b-200x300.jpg 200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 433px) 100vw, 433px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":2323,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"template":"","class_list":["post-3804","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\/3804","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\/2323"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portail-esclavage-reunion.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3804"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}