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FRANCE SLAVERY MEMORIAL
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Nantes, France – 12 February 2025
1. Wide pan of Nantes city centre and the monument to the dead of the war of 1870 in the foreground
2. Wide of Cours Saint Pierre, a park near the cathedral of Nantes with a bus driving past in the distance
3. Various of people walking on the Passerelle Victor Schoelcher bridge, named after Victor Schoelcher, who was a French abolitionist and best known for his leading role in the abolition of slavery in France in 1848
4. Wide of the path as part of the Memorial to the Abolition of Slavery in Nantes, with a series of glass inserts engraved and fixed to the ground
5. Various of the main exhibit as part of the memorial including large concrete beams and glass panels with engraved quotations and messages
6. Close pan of one of the 2,000 small glass inserts fixed to the ground on the path leading up to the main memorial, reading ‘Le Cesar’, acting as a memorial of one of the boats involved in the slave trade in Nantes, detailing when its slavers left the port of Nantes
7. Various of Agnès Poras, tour guide at Memorial De L’Abolition Nantes walking along the path of panels
8. SOUNDBITE (English) Agnès Poras, tour guide at Memorial De L’Abolition Nantes:
"When you come to this place you face 2,000 boards on the ground floor which are coming to relate you to a part of history, so the vessel’s names, and the counters, which are all represented here. You’ve got more than 1,700 boats names represented, so that faces you with the big investment of the port of Nantes and the traders and ship owners and to the slave trade in the 18th century."
9. Various of the main exhibit as part of the Memorial to the Abolition of Slavery in Nantes, showing glass panels with quotations and wooden beams and decking giving the impression to visitors that they are on a boat
10. Various of visitors inside the memorial
11. Mid track of glass panels with quotations written on them
12. Pan of inside the memorial looking out to the river
13. SOUNDBITE (English) Agnès Poras, tour guide at Memorial De L’Abolition Nantes:
"So the physical position of this memorial along the banks of the river is important because this is where the boats left Nantes in the slave trading route. Of course they took from Nantes first to Africa then to the West Indies. And when you come here you’re I would say stuck between the former quays and banks of the quays where the trade was being made and have been reused by the two artists and integrated here as you can see from the concrete that surrounds the central axis that leads you underground under the level of the quay."
14. Wide of the Château des ducs de Bretagne castle in Nantes
15. Wide track of the bridge entrance to the castle
16. Mid of banner outside castle entrance
17. Pan of inside the museum’s area devoted to the memorial of the slave trade, including preserved artefacts
18. Various of miniature models depicting the plantations slaves were forced to work on, which became notorious for resulting in high death rates and high turnover for replacements. The most sought after captives were men 20 to 25 years of age, working on sugar, indigo and coffee plantations
19. Various of a model of an enslaved man on display
20. SOUNDBITE (French) Bertrand Guillet, director of Château des ducs de Bretagne:
21. Various of a register of names listing workers at Thebaudieres house, a sugar plantation
24. Pan of ceramics in cabinet and shackles
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