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The Bussa Emancipation Memorial Sculpture in Barbados

Title
The Emancipation Statue


Artist
Karls Broodhagen


Date
1985


Medium
Bronze


Dimensions
Unknown


Accession #
Public statue



The Bussa Emancipation Statue is the work of Barbados' best known sculptor Karl Broodhagen and symbolises the breaking of the chains of slavery at Emancipation.
Slavery, abolished in 1834, was followed by a four-year apprenticeship period where free men continued to work a 45-hour week without pay in exchange for living in the tiny huts provided by the plantation owners.
Freedom from slavery was celebrated in 1838 at the end of the apprentice period with over 70,000 Barbadians of African descent taking to the streets with the Barbados folk song:

"Lick an Lock-up Done Wid, Hurray fuh Jin-Jin (Queen Victoria).De Queen come from England to set we freeNow Lick an Lock-up Done Wid, Hurray fuh Jin-Jin"

Many Barbadians refer to the statue as Bussa, the name of a slave who helped inspire a revolt against slavery in Barbados in 1816.
(source; barbados.org)
 

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