This piece serves a painful reminder of the historic ships that enforced the migration of enslaved African peoples from their homeland to a foreign, brutal new reality. These deplorable decades have taken a toll on the weathered ship, unable to even stand alone, dependent upon added planks and stands symbolizing the evolution and perpetuation of this system in order to disenfranchise their descendants long after freedom had been “granted.” One perpetuation is the mass incarceration of people of color, specifically African-Americans, as depicted in the model of Angola, a Louisiana plantation turned prison. An illustration of the modern plantation lay in the hull just as the bodies of the enslaved who enclose this scene were transported in the ship’s interior. This imagery is a physical representation of the horrible efforts taken by those who wish to maintain a racial divide amongst the peoples in this nation; however, if united, this ship can be forced to retire once and for all.