[PF:166534] *MARTINIQUE*_* 1

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martinique

 

Region: Island in the eastern Caribbean Sea

(it is an overseas region of France)

Area total: 1,128km2

Coast line: North Atlantic Ocean,Carribean Sea

 Prefecture Department: Fort-de-France

 

 

 

 

 

Fort de France

 

 

 

Library of Schoelcher

(First mounted in Paris in the Tuileries Gardens in 1887 and transported piece by piece after the World Expo 1889 in Fort de France.)

 

 

Fort-de-France

 

 

St.Pierre-Mount Pelée

 

 

St.Pierre

 

 

Diamond Beach

 

 

Diamond Rock

 

 

Les Salines Beach

 

 

Le Marin

 

 

Le Marin

 

 

Anse Noire

 

 

Josephine Bath

 

 

Le Jardin Botanique de Balata

 

 

The Anse Cafard Slave Memorial

 

The Anse Cafard Memorial in Southern Martinique is a deeply moving monument to the losses imposed on African peoples through the slave trade. On a gently sloping field facing the sea, within view of Diamond Rock (Le Rocher du Diamant), Martinican sculptor Laurent Valére has built a tribute to a horrific shipwreck and a most painful history.

As midnight approached on the night of April 7, 1830, a ship carrying a cargo of Africans destined for the illicit Caribbean slave market crashed into the rocky shore near the village of Diamant. The slave trade had been abolished and the ship was approaching Martinique clandestinely. Forty six bodies were recovered-all but four of them Africans who were buried in a mass grave near the post where the river meets the sea at Diamant. Tens of others were rescued and sheltered in local households. The colonial government of Martinique, unsure about the legal status of men, women, and children brought forcibly into the island, where they could be neither freemen nor slaves, sent the survivors to Cayenne. Once there, they disappear from official Martinique history.

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