A Guide to Sites, Museums, and Memory

Allées Gwendolyn Midlo Hall Contributor: Whitney Plantation

<i>Allées Gwendolyn Midlo Hall</i>
The Hall memorial is dedicated to all the slaves who lived in Louisiana.
<i>Allées Gwendolyn Midlo Hall</i>
All the names (107,000) recorded in Gwendolyn Midlo Hall’s Louisiana Slave Database were engraved on 216 granite slabs, mounted on 18 walls.
<i>Allées Gwendolyn Midlo Hall</i>
At one end of the memorial stands a modern sculpture depicting a West African pirogue of the type used to carry trade goods and captives in West Africa from internal waterways to seagoing vessels. This piece of art was built from stainless steel by Ed Wilson of Houston, Texas.

This memorial is dedicated to all the slaves who lived in Louisiana. It is named after Gwendolyn Midlo Hall, author of Africans in Colonial Louisiana (1992) and Slavery and African Ethnicities in the Americas (2005) in recognition of her contribution to the history of slavery in the Americas. All the names (107,000) recorded in this author’s Louisiana Slave Database, along with slavery-related pictures and quotations, were engraved on 216 granite slabs and mounted on 18 walls.

Origin:
Whitney Plantation, Louisiana, United States
Item type:
Memorial

Related Pages:


More from Whitney Plantation:

Culture & Artifacts

About the Contributor