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Blackboy Clock A large clock, four foot by four foot with golden roman numerals on a black background, which incorporates a blackamoor caricature of an African child into its design. When functioning, the caricature is meant to ring a bell on the hour. The clock was assembled in 1774 by John Miles but the creation of the figure may predate this. At present, the exact origins of the statuette are unclear. It bears some resemblance to painted wooden figures of “Black Boys” that were used as tobacconists’ shop signs in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, but the clock was not originally sited on a building for selling tobacco goods. Many "Black Boy" names, signs, and architectural features are still in existence across the rural and urban landscapes of modern Britain. They are increasingly the site of contestation over the ways in which racism has been physically inscribed in the environment, as many events since 2020 have demonstrated.
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Maroon Memorial, Sainte-Anne 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.
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Statue of the Abolition of Slavery The statue is modelled on the Délivrance statue designed in 1914 by sculptor Emile Guillaume and chosen by the Nantes municipality in 1927 to complement the war memorial installed in 1918. The project takes this statue, arms raised to the sky to signify deliverance, and encircles it in chains symbolizing slavery, from which the enslaved person frees himself.