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English: Photographers caption: "The 1763 Monument on Square of the Revolution in Georgetown, Guyana, was designed by local artist Philip Moore. It commemorates Cuffy, leader of the 1763 slave rebellion on the Bernice sugar plantation."
1763 Monument on Square of the Revolution in Georgetown, Guyana, designed by Guyanese artist Philip Moore. Cuffy, also known as Kofi Badu, [1] also spelled as Coffij, Coffy, Cuffy, Kofi, or Koffi (died in 1763), was an African Akan man who was captured in West Africa and stolen for slavery to work on the plantations of the Dutch colony of Berbice in present-day Guyana.
The Berbice Rebellion was a slave rebellion in Guyana [3] that began on 23 February 1763 [2] and lasted to December, with leaders including Coffij.The first major slave revolt in South America, [4] it is seen as a major event in Guyana's anti-colonial struggles, and when Guyana became a republic in 1970 the state declared 23 February as a day to commemorate the start of the Berbice slave revolt.
1763 Coffij Monument Philip Moore (b. 1921- d. 2012) was a self-taught Guyanese sculptor and painter known for designing the 1763 Monument in Georgetown , Guyana . [ 1 ] During his career, he held artist residencies at Livingstone College and Princeton University where he taught wood sculpture.
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View of Monument Valley in Utah, looking south on U.S. Route 163 from 13 miles (21 km) north of the Utah–Arizona state line Mitchell Mesa from the View Hotel.. Monument Valley (Navajo: Tsé Biiʼ Ndzisgaii, pronounced [tsʰépìːʔ ǹtsɪ̀skɑ̀ìː], meaning "valley of the rocks") is a region of the Colorado Plateau characterized by a cluster of sandstone buttes, with the largest reaching ...
English: The location of multiple scenic rock formations, Monument Valley straddles the border of Arizona and Utah in the southwestern United States, and is located within the Navajo Nation. The valley sits atop the Colorado Plateau and is characterized by sandstone buttes, pinnacles, and mesas, which reach heights of up to 1,000 feet (300 ...
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