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Photograph of statue to Zumbi dos Palmares. He stands with his weight shifted to his right foot. He brings the sole of his left foot to his right shin and holds a spear in his left hand as he turns his head slightly to the left.
The work is dedicated to Zumbi dos Palmares, a quilombo leader and one of the principal forces behind the resistance to slavery in Brazil. The muscular, seminude figure of Zumbi dos Palmares, stands with his weight shifted to his right foot. He…

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Photograph of the monument to the Three Rebel Queens of the Virgin Islands in St. Thomas, U.S. Virgin Islands.
The memorial shows three women facing outward, the leaders of the "Fireburn" Uprising in 1878, the largest labor revolt in Danish colonial history. Dressed in floor-length dresses and aprons, each figure carries objects related to their resistance.…

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Photograph of I Am Queen Mary statue. The statue is an allegorical portrait of Mary Thomas, known as Queen Mary, an enslaved woman who worked on a sugar cane planation in the Danish West Indies (now Saint Croix, U.S. Virgin Islands). She led the largest labor revolt in Danish colonial history, the "Fireburn" Uprising in 1878.
The statue is an allegorical portrait of Mary Thomas, known as Queen Mary, an enslaved woman who worked on a sugar cane planation in the Danish West Indies (now Saint Croix, U.S. Virgin Islands). She led the largest labor revolt in Danish colonial…

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Photograph of the statue of Gaspar Yanga in Veracruz, Mexico. The work was created to celebrate Yanga, a seventeenth-century self-emancipated (former enslaved person) leader of a maroon colony .
The muscular, semi-nude figure looks resolutely forward as he raises a machete in his right hand and holds a long (sugar cane?) in his left. A shackle with a broken chain is still attached to his left wrist. The work was created to celebrate Gaspar…

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