Slave No More is a photograph by Stephen Stookey which was uploaded on August 25th, 2014.
Slave No More
This red brick building is a decaying relic of an insidious past. Kent, Sierra Leone, on the Atlantic coast, once served as a major transit point... more
Title
Slave No More
Artist
Stephen Stookey
Medium
Photograph - Photography
Description
This red brick building is a decaying relic of an insidious past. Kent, Sierra Leone, on the Atlantic coast, once served as a major transit point for the British slave trade. Captured Africans were delivered to Kent and held in the building pictured prior to transport to the Banana Islands' fortifications for processing and shipment to the Americas. The abandoned building stands as a reminder of West Africa's painful past, a past that need not be lived again. Kent's population and future changed with the 1792 arrival in Sierra Leone of FREED African American and West Indies slaves from Nova Scotia. Kent, no longer utilized for slave trade, became the new home to hundreds of former slaves.
Original image captured with a Canon 5D Mark III & Canon 24-105 f/4L IS USM.
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Historical Buildings of the World
8/29/2014
Uploaded
August 25th, 2014
