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transcript |  the gate | up

First male voice: A hundred and seventy-one steps, shoe size twelve, from the base of Nelson’s statue which is another story to the gate.

First female voice joins: One, two, three, four, five ... (continues counting)

Second male voice joins: Three hundred thousand, three hundred thousand and ten … (continues counting)

Third male voice joins, chanting: Africans, Africans … (repeatedly)

Fourth male voice joins, chanting: Negroes, negroes, negroes… (repeatedly)

Second female voice joins, chanting: Negroes, negroes, negroes…negro slaves, negro slaves, slaves … (repeatedly)

Other voices join, chanting: Heal, heal, heal … (repeatedly)

artist profile | Eric Belgrave | up

A place that exists but not to some
A place where Africans ended and slaves began
A place where languages were lost
A place where family names died
A place where spiritual connection was severed
A place where amnesia was sown
A place to heal

Eric Belgrave is a photographer who lives and works in Barbados.