Savannah Riverfront
East Side – near the Hyatt Elevator
This monument was built in 2002, designed by Savannah College of Art and Design (SCAD) professor Dorothy Spradley, it shows a family embracing with the chain of slavery at their feet.
Maya Angelou’s Poem
“We were stolen, sold and bought together from the African continent. We got on the slave ships together. We lay back to belly in the holds of the slave ships in each others excrement and urine together, sometimes died together, and our lifeless bodies thrown overboard together. Today, we are standing up together, with faith and even some joy.”
Dorothy Spradley was born in 1946. She holds a Bachelor’s degree from Agnes Scott College, 1967 and a Master of Fine Arts, from the University of Georgia, 1976.
