4 . Memorial to the Abolition of Slavery , Nantes . Flickr images uploaded by Flickr upload bot CC-BY-2.0 .
mémoire et l ’ histoire de l ’ esclavage – be established with the responsibility to ensure that programmes , events , commemorations and research projects are organised and awareness of the history is raised publicly throughout France and its territories . The memorial Le cri , l ’ écrit by Fabrice Hyber , erected in the Luxembourg Garden in 2007 , was one of the first actions undertaken .
Port cities such as Nantes , Bordeaux , La Rochelle and Le Havre were centres of the triangular slave trade , with Nantes being the largest . The city was the first to acknowledge its role by erecting monuments , organising museum exhibitions and tours of sites linked to slavery heritage , placarding streets named after slavers , etc . A walk along the former docks , known as the Quai de Fosse , was laid with more than 1,700 glass bricks inscribed with the names of the slave ships , the date of departure and the destination . There is also a memorial to the abolition of slavery , along with a small exhibition that was set up in 2012 . Several of the streets named after slavers are placarded , and the Dukes of Brittany Museum has a permanent exhibition to the history of the trans-Atlantic slave trade .
At national level , the story is more complex .
5 . Le cri , l ’ écrit : Hommage aux esclaves , Luxembourg Gardens , Paris . Harmonide , Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 International .
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