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Neg Mawon
Neg Mawon: the freedom monument erected at the very spot enslaved Africans were killed in Dominica
The Neg Mawon Emancipation Monument was built to serve as a reminder of the struggles of freed slaves toward the independence of the Dominican Republic and their ultimate liberation in 1838. Neg Mawon, which literally translates into an escaped slave, is depicted as a muscular figure of a shirtless free man who is no longer…
