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1986

1986: A crowd in Port-au-Prince removes the statue of Christopher Columbus and throws it into the sea.

1986: A crowd in Port-au-Prince removes the statue of Christopher Columbus and throws it into the sea. This act demonstrated how public memory can physically reclaim space by erasing colonial symbols.

Source  ·  p. 127 Trouillot, Silencing the Past, 127