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Emancipation Statue

Fodor's Review:

This powerful statue of a slave -- whose raised hands, with broken chains hanging from each wrist, evoke both contempt and victory -- is commonly referred to as the Bussa Statue. Bussa was the man who, in 1816, led the first slave rebellion on Barbados. The work of Barbadian sculptor Karl Brodhagen was erected in 1985 to commemorate the emancipation of the slaves in 1834. The statue, in the middle of a busy intersection east of Bridgetown, overlooks a broad cane field -- a setting that makes the depiction of Bussa all the more poignant.

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