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Sojourner (Sacramento, California)
Unlike many sculptural representations of Sojourner Truth, Elizabeth Catlett’s work is geometric and slightly abstracted. Truth is shown with her arms crossed at her chest as she tilts her head skyward, her eyes closed. The flared skirt of her…
Sojourner Truth Statue (Highland, New York)
Vinnie Bagwell's seven-foot-tall bronze statue of Sojourner Truth reveals a bespectacled, a middle-aged woman who stares resolutely forward, her head turned slightly to the right. Bagwell, perhaps taking inspiration from this undated carte de visite…
Legacies (Memphis, Tennessee)
Legacies depicts a Chickasaw woman wrapped in a cloak. The artist Vinnie Bagwell has embellished the hem of the cloak with bas-relief, illuminating the complex history of present-day Memphis. She includes an African American woman and child. The two…
From Absence to Presence, Commemorative to Enslaved Peoples of Southern Maryland (St. Mary's City, Maryland)
The installation is shaped to evoke the frame of a slave cabin, constructed from alternating horizontal rows of wooden clapboards and mirror-polished, stainless-steel panels. The reflective surfaces mirror the surrounding environment, while the…
Camp Barker Memorial (Washington, DC)
Created by the architecture firm After Architecture (Katie MacDonald and Kyle Schumann), the memorial consists of three entry gatewaysthat serve as both functional entrances and commemorative spaces. Constructed from charred wood and lined with…
Spirit of Freedom (Hamilton, Bermuda)
In 1730, the colonial government of Bermuda executed Sarah Bassett, an enslaved woman, for allegedly attempting to poison her granddaughter’s enslavers. In Spirit of Freedom, she is depicted as a slender female figure bound tightly with ropes, her…
Enslaved Africans' Rain Garden (Yonkers, New York)
The public art project including a rain garden is located along the Hudson River in Yonkers. It is comprised of four life-size bronze statues: I'Satta; Themba; Bibi; and Sola and Olumide. The figures commemorate enslaved Africans who resided at the…
Henry "Box" Brown Memorial (Richmond, Virginia)
The memorial commemorates Henry "Box" Brown's harrowing journey to freedom. On March 23, 1849, with the assistance of James Caesar Anthony Smith, a freedman and white abolitionist, Samuel Alexander Smith, Brown shipped himself in a two-by-three-foot…
The Whitney Plantation Museum (Edgard, Louisiana)
Dedicated to the history of enslavement in the Louisiana, the Whitney Plantation is sited on the grounds where enslaved people labored in bondage for over 100 years. The historical site, museum, and memorials are located in St. John the Baptist…
Dred and Harriet Scott Statue (St. Louis, Missouri)
A figurative statue of Dred and Harriet Scott. Dred Scott wears a suit with tie. He reaches his left arm behind Harriet Scott, embracing her; they also hold hands. Harriet Scott wears a full-length dress and turns her head upward.