Muralist - Sculpture - Fine Arts
This section bears witness to one of the most harrowing chapters in human history: the transatlantic slave trade. It depicts the violent rupture from homeland to forced displacement, focusing on the Middle Passage—the horrific sea journey endured by millions of captured Africans. Cramped, shackled, and dehumanized aboard slave ships, an estimated one-third perished before even reaching shore.
The mural does not look away. It shows the trauma, the loss, the tears—but also the defiant spirit carried across oceans. Cultural memory, songs, beliefs, and languages survived alongside the human cargo. This section is not just about what was taken, but what was preserved under impossible circumstances. It reflects the beginning of a diasporic identity forged in suffering and survival.
It is a call to remember the cost of empire and a testament to the ancestral strength that still echoes through the descendants of those who endured it.