The American Slavery Memorial is located along the riverfront on the site of West Potomac Park in Washington D.C. The actual site was chosen for its large spaces, proximity to the riverfront, and also it is only a walking distance away from the Lincoln and the soon to be completed Martin Luther King, Jr. memorial. The memorial is situated parallel to the rivers’ edge in order to allow for the memorial to span a great distance. The memorial is mostly linear in plan due to the idea that the person experiencing the structure would slowly walk through it, pausing to contemplate all of the text that is imbedded into the surface of the walking plane. The text is focused on specific events in history, in the form of a timeline, that you would read as you pass over them, either slowly descending into the ground plane or ascending towards the park’s ground plane. If the event was detrimental to slavery, such as causing more hardships or their rights being taken away, then you would be descending down while having a feeling of inferiority due to constantly looking down in order to read the textual elements. If there were a point in history when slavery was being banned or the slaves were allowed to evoke their rights, then you would traverse upward towards level ground, symbolizing the equality between everyone, not just the white population. Another element of the monument that evokes an emotion is the water rolling over the walls as the walls slowly angle in towards the person experiencing the memorial. The water gradually becomes stronger as it flows down over the walls giving you began a feeling that the walls may actually cave in on you while you pass underneath or the strong currents may overwhelm you, in a sense you may feel that you will drown before making it out. These feelings are tied to the sense of oppression that the slaves encountered on a daily basis. Eventually, you do rise above the ground plane and are once again on level ground. This gives you the idea that what you just experienced might not have happened, yet due to your strong emotional experiences of oppression while encountering the memorial, you know that slavery did occur and the pain and struggles it caused.