15 million trees:
A Living Memorial for Every Life Stolen
The Atlantic Slave Memorial is a living response to the legacy of slavery—one that turns loss into life, pain into progress, and memory into movement. Together, we can grow a future rooted in justice.
The Atlantic Slave Memorial is an ambitious vision—to plant 15 million trees in The Gambia, each representing a soul stolen from Africa and forced across the Atlantic as part of the brutal slave trade.
Grown by young Gambians,
this living, breathing tribute will take root along Africa’s Great Green Wall, a 5,000-mile ecological corridor stretching from The Gambia to Djibouti.
But this is more
than a memorial;
it is a movement.
The same forces that fueled the transatlantic slave trade—extraction, exploitation, and inequality—continue today in new forms: racial injustice, environmental destruction, and forced migration. Across the Sahel, climate change is driving young people from their homes, just as their ancestors were taken against their will
By growing this memorial, young Gambians are not only honoring the past but fighting for the future.
These trees will restore degraded land, create jobs,
and empower communities.
The Atlantic Slave Memorial will stand as a symbol of resilience—transforming pain into hope, loss into life.