Jerry Rescue Monument (Syracuse, New York)

Jerry Rescue Monument (Syracuse, New York)

Subject (Topic):
Slavery
Resistance
Slavery-Emancipation
Slavery- Abolition
Northeastern United States
Public art
Public sculpture

Subject (Object Type):
Commemorative sculpture

A concrete four-pointed star serves as the sculpture’s plinth. Three brick and concrete walls form a niche, which viewers are invited to physically occupy. Affixed to the brick walls, the niche contains bronze plaques explaining the history of Jerry Henry’s rescue and the symbolism of the sculpture. Emerging from the central brick wall, on the side that faces outward, away from the architectural niche, are three life-size bronze figures. Rendered in high relief, the artist, BuMann, depicts an imagined scene of Jerry’s rescue. A shirtless Henry, with broken shackles on his wrists, is helped to safety with the assistance of Rev. Samuel J. May and the Rev. Jermain W. Loguen (who was himself a formerly enslaved person), men who were not actually present during Jerry’s escape.

BuMann, Sharon; BuMann Studio

1990

To learn more about Jerry Henry's rescue, checkout "The Jerry Rescue and Its Aftermath," a digital exhibition curated by the Special Collections Research Center of Syracuse University.

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English

Visual Arts-Sculpture

Clinton Square, 161 W Genesee St, Syracuse, New York, 13202, USA

Sculpture