United Nations Slavery Memorial

[1] The memorial's name is drawn from the castle on the island of Gorée, Senegal, where enslaved people were held before being shipped across the ocean.

[5] Also inside the structure is a horizontal statue of an androgynous figure carved from black Zimbabwe granite,[3] meant to represent the "human spirit" and the deaths of all those who died due to the slave trade.

[3] The Slavery Memorial concept came from various resolutions adopted by the UN General Assembly including A/RES/62/122, A/RES/63/5, and the Durban Declaration.

This was pushed back to 2015, both due to funding shortfalls and so its installation would coincide with the International Decade for People of African Descent, which started in 2015.

[10][11] The memorial was officially unveiled on March 25, 2015, the International Day of Remembrance of the Victims of Slavery and the Transatlantic Slave Trade.