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Videos about the United Nations Permanent Memorial to Honour the Victims of Slavery and the Transatlantic Slave Trade (Ark of Return)
United Nations - After winning a design competition sponsored by UNESCO in 2013, Rodney Leon’s masterpiece, the Ark of Return, which is the Permanent Memorial in honour of the Victims of Slavery and the Transatlantic Slave Trade, was officially unveiled in New York on 25th March 2015.
United Nations - After winning a design competition sponsored by UNESCO in 2013, Rodney Leon’s masterpiece, the Ark of Return, which is the Permanent Memorial in honour of the Victims of Slavery and the Transatlantic Slave Trade, was officially unveiled in New York on 25th March 2015. It sits majestically on the plaza of the United Nations as a reminder to the leaders of the world of their responsibility to prevent tragedies such as the Transatlantic Slave Trade from ever occurring again.
For over 400 years, more than 15 million men, women and children were the victims of the tragic transatlantic slave trade, one of the darkest chapters in human history.
United Nations - The 15th to the 19th century saw a brutal trade in human beings. More than 15 million Africans were sold in the Americas as slaves. Now their ordeal is once again being remembered - and honored.
United Nations - In late October 2014, Ark of Return designer Rodney Leon visited the ABC Stone Company in Brooklyn, New York, to meet two visiting Italian sculptors to discuss his design for the Permanent Memorial in Remembrance of the Victims of Slavery and the Transatlantic Slave Trade which will be erected on the grounds of the United Nations.