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Gilt of Cain

Stone bearing the last verse of the poem by Lemn Sissay that makes up part of the sculpture by Michael Visocchi. The poem uses phrases that might equally apply to he financial district of London to make apowerful statement about the slave trade.

 

The scupture was unveiled by Archbishop Desmond Tutu in 2008. It sits in Fen Court in the City of London on the site of the churchyard of the now vanished St Gabriel's Fenchurch Street. The area has strong associatons with the abolishonist movement.

 

You can see the whole sculpture on Lemn Sissay's website

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Uploaded on March 27, 2011
Taken on March 26, 2011