Memorial Cap 110: Memorial de l’Anse Caffard

Memorial Cap 110: Memorial de l’Anse Caffard

Standing with their backs to wind-swept foliage and volcanic peaks, 15 sandblasted concrete busts face the sea. Their hunched shoulders and bowed heads exude sorrow as they look toward the Gulf of Guinea, their homeland, over 3,000 miles away. Martinique, a French overseas department, was once a lucrative hub for sugarcane—an industry built on the backs of enslaved Africans. Over 200,000 souls were forcibly brought here in the early 1600s. After…