El Hombre Redimido (English: Man redeemed) is a bronze statue by Victor Cott[1] that commemorates the abolition of slavery in Puerto Rico.

During the 18th century, as gold mining ceased to be one of the major industries in Puerto Rico, slaves worked mostly in coffee plantations and sugar cane fields.

In 1880 Olimpio Otero, Juan Mayoral Barnés, and Román Baldorioty de Castro were instrumental in creating the concept for a park dedicated to the commemorating the abolition of slavery, the only such memorial in the Caribbean.

[4] In 1956, under the administration of Ponce mayor Andrés Grillasca Salas, the park was renovated and enlarged to include an obelisk and the statue.

[5] Built in 1956 to be part of the renovation and enlargement of the park that had stood there since the 1890s, El Hombre Redimido[6] was designed by Victor M. Cott (b.