Frederick Douglass (Baltimore, Maryland)

Frederick Douglass (Baltimore, Maryland)

Subject (Topic)
Antislavery movements--United States
Enslaved persons--Emancipaiton
Freedom
Maryland--Baltimore
Public art
Public sculpture
Slavery--Maryland

Subject (Name)
Douglass, Frederick, 1818-1895

Subject (Object Type)
Commemorative sculpture

Caught mid-stride, the over life-size bronze statue of Frederick Douglass stands in front of Holmes Hall on the campus of Morgan State University, a historically Black university in Baltimore, Maryland. The bearded Douglass holds a cane in his right hand as he steps forward on his right foot.

Lewis, James Edward, 1923-1997

Photograph: Wikipedia Commons.

February 20, 1956

Maryland Educational Association; Children in Colored Schools; and the Citizens of Maryland.

Morgan State University, 1700 East Cold Spring Lane, Baltimore, Maryland, 21251, United States

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English

Visual Arts-Sculpture

Holmes Hall, Morgan State University, 1700 East Cold Spring Lane, Baltimore, Maryland, 21251, United States

Frederick Douglass at Morgan State University

Inscription on granite base:
Frederick Douglass
1817-1895
Humanitarian
Statesman

Bronze plaque on back of monument:
Erected By the Maryland Educational Association Through Contributions of Children in Colored Schools And Citizens of Maryland. In the Year 1956.

"I am an American
And As an American
I speak to America."

Frederick Douglass

James E. Lewis Sculptor

96 in. (243.84 cm)

Bronze; Granite

Kelly, Cindy, and Edwin Harlan Remsberg. Outdoor Sculpture in Baltimore: A Historical Guide to Public Art in the Monumental City. Johns Hopkins University Press, 2011.

Renée Ater

Sculpture

96 in. (243.84 cm)