In the past week, an exhibition titled "Daring Freedom – Figures of the Fight Against Slavery" was inaugurated at the Pantheon in Paris.
One of the exhibition's highlights is a model of a slave ship, a central element of the triangular trade, specifically in the transatlantic slave trade.
The model of the ship reproduces the punishment cage where rebels, not thrown overboard, were confined. With a bit of imagination, it becomes evident that the bars of the cage and the stacking of future slaves in the