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title: "auction"
summary: "auction. Página institucional de Amaranto Museo Virtual de Derecho Constitucional en la Universidad Externado de Colombia. Photo credits: Fundación Puntos de Encuentro Click on the image to enlarge Against a blue background representing the sea, a slave ship floats, signalling the abhorrent trade in human beings."
description: "Photo credits: Fundación Puntos de Encuentro Click on the image to enlarge Against a blue background representing the sea, a slave ship floats, signalling the abhorrent trade in human beings."
url: "https://www.uexternado.edu.co/en/amaranto-museo-virtual/2-derechos/subasta/"
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language: "en-US"
site: "Universidad Externado de Colombia"
section: "Amaranto Museo Virtual de Derecho Constitucional"
updated: "2026-06-11T11:46:03-05:00"
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Publicado: 10 of November of 2021

# auction

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[Gallery 2. Rights](https://www.uexternado.edu.co/en/amaranto-museo-virtual/2-derechos/)

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**Photo credits: Fundación Puntos de Encuentro**  
Click on the image to enlarge

#### The Weavers of Mampuján

2009  
Quilt: fabric on fabric  
145 x 96 cm

Against a blue background representing the sea, a slave ship floats, signalling the abhorrent trade in human beings. The Weavers of Mampuján depict the auctioning of millions of African captives—chained, torn from their homeland and families, and reduced to commodities. At the centre stands a white man with a gavel, surrounded by elegantly dressed buyers bringing Black individuals to market, unjustly subjected to a fatal destiny. The work recalls the profound Article 17 of the Constitution: “Slavery, servitude, and the trafficking of human beings in all forms are prohibited.

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#### See

[About the Artwork](http://fundacionpuntosdeencuentro.org/los-tapices-de-mampujan/)

[About the Artist](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=owAj-XxbXhk)

[Sentencia T-1078/12. Prohibición de la esclavitud.  
](https://www.corteconstitucional.gov.co/RELATORIA/2012/T-1078-12.htm#:~:text=El%20art%C3%ADculo%2017%20de%20la%20Constituci%C3%B3n%20dispone%3A%20%E2%80%9CSe%20proh%C3%ADben%20la,humanos%20en%20todas%20sus%20formas%E2%80%9D)

[Sentencia Justicia y Paz. Desplazamiento forzado en Mampuján](https://www.ramajudicial.gov.co/documents/6342228/0/UBER+ENRIQUE+BANQU%C3%89Z+Y+OTRO+%2829+06+2010%29.pdf/4dae556c-ac62-452d-83d7-238c975610c1)

[Back to Gallery 2. Rights](https://www.uexternado.edu.co/en/amaranto-museo-virtual/2-derechos/)

[](https://www.uexternado.edu.co/en/amaranto-museo-virtual/2-derechos/version-libre/)

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