STATUE OF THE UNKNOWN CHESTNUT

A symbol of freedom par excellence, the statue of the Maroon Unknown (Nèg Mawon in Creole) was realized in 1968 by Haitian architect Robert Mangonès. She represents a slave who managed to escape from a colonial plantation, machete to cut the cane well in hand, blowing in a anyone to call the slaves to insubordination. Historically, the slave revolt broke out in the Santo Domingo settlement on the night of 22 to 23 August 1791, thousands of forced workers fleeing the fields of cane to take refuge in the dark. Two years later, on 29 August 1793, slavery was abolished in the colony. The figure of the unknown Brown was chosen by the United Nations in 1989 to illustrate the stamp of commemoration of article 4 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, which universally prohibits any form of slavery.