Les Marches des Esclaves
Address: | Escalier Aux Esclaves, Petit-Canal, Guadeloupe
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Contemplative stop along the Route des Esclaves
This is good place to pause for a few moments of reflection. It is meant to be a memorial to the abolition of slavery in 1848, the stairs themselves having been used to move people in from the nearby ...
The end of slavery, what a joy!
Music was always with the slaves. It helped them to survive. When I saw the drum, amidst the steps of the slaves. des Esclaves, it made sense. How terrible to sell people and becoming slaves wit...
OK for a short visit
This actually was a sugar port, not a slave market. There are ruins, a small fishing port, and exercise machines. The most interesting thing is the church at the top of the steps.
A historical glimpse of slavery and freedom
This site was inaugurated in 1994 to celebrate the bicentennial of the first abolition of slavery in Guadeloupe (June 7, 1794-1994). Full abolition was reached in 1848. The site is fairly basic and qu...