Items - Cast in Stone

The memorial features the wall of a mill, a symbol of the oppressive plantation system, from which emerges a Marron with his leg and ears cut off as a sign of attempted resistance and escape, and on which several symbols of slavery and marronnage are displayed: chains referring to deprivation of freedom; two Chaltounés, torches, used for nocturnal travel; a lambi conch shell, which enabled communication with other slaves; a Ka, drum, which accompanied slaves in their songs and enabled them to perpetuate African music and was a decisive means of communication.

Relief of Aimé Césaire, Charleville-Mézières

Two bas-reliefs one below the other on a narrow stele: Victor Schoelcher above, Aimé Césaire below. On the left, a panel commemorating the 2011 Year of Overseas Territories. On the right, a wall commemorating the abolition of slavery in 1848, with four painted portraits of Toussaint Louverture, Louis Delgrès, Abraham Lincoln and Christiane Taubira. And a list of those who "advanced the cause of black people".