Almost 13 million enslaved people memorialized in America's Deep South

The Freedom Monument Sculpture Park in Montgomery, Alabama, is a 17-acre site dedicated to honoring the nearly 13 million Black people forced into the trans-Atlantic slave trade.
The park features more than 50 artworks, including Kehinde Wiley’s An Archaeology of Silence and the 43ft-high National Monument to Freedom, which is engraved with the names of over 1,000 survivors of slavery.
It is one of four Legacy sites in Montgomery developed by the Equal Justice Initiative, a US non-profit organisation founded by Bryan Stevenson to challenge racial injustice.
The other Legacy sites include Montgomery Square, the Legacy Museum, and a national memorial dedicated to more than 4,400 victims of racial terror lynchings between 1877 and 1950.
The initiative aims to educate visitors on America's history of racial violence while inspiring ongoing action against modern bigotry, bias, and injustice.

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