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Title
Memorial to Enslaved Laborers
Description
This unusual memorial is dedicated to estimated 4,000 enslaved people who worked the grounds of the University of Virginia. Constructed from local granite, the memorial takes the form of a broken ring which measures about 80 feet in diameter and includes a smaller ring inside. The broken ring is meant to symbolize the broken shackles of slavery and recognize the role enslaved people played in the foundation of the university and Thomas Jefferson's legacy.
Creator
Mary Hughes
Date
11/04/2020
Contributor
chs24
Language
English
Type
Physical Object
Identifier
2078
Extent
m x m x m
Spatial Coverage
current,38.03510308128234,-78.50133954419826;
Europeana
Country
United States
Europeana Data Provider
Memorial to Enslaved Laborers
Europeana Type
TEXT
Physical Object Item Type Metadata
Wiki
https://www.cineg.org/wiki/index.php/Memorial_to_Enslaved_Laborers
Erected by
University of Virginia (UVA)
Funded by
UVA and Doners
Run by
UVA
Inscription
“Can we forget the crack of the whip, the cowhide, whipping-post, the auction-block, the spaniels, the iron collar, the negro-trader tearing the young child from its mother’s breast as a whelp from the lioness? Have we forgotten that by those horrible cruelties, hundreds of our race have been killed? No, we have not, nor ever will”
Organisation
UVA
Cost
6 million dollars
State
VA
Affiliation
Emancipation
Indigenous Land
Monacan
City
Charlottesville