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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…

The museum, located on Liverpool’s Albert Docks, is close to the dry docks where 18th-century slave trading ships were repaired and fitted out. According to the museum’s director, David Fleming:“Our vision is to create a major new International…

The stone obelisk is dedicated to the memory of more than 400 colored troops from Kent County, Maryland who served in the Union Army during the Civil War. In front of the obelisk is a stone bench.

An imposing figure of a woman stares straight ahead, seated barefoot on a wide-backed chair. She holds a torch in one hand and a tool used to cut sugar cane in the other. The sculpture was inspired by Mary Thomas, one of the Three Queens of St.…

The work is dedicated to Zumbi dos Palmares, a Quilombo leader and one of the principle forces behind the resistance to slavery in Brazil. The muscular, semi-nude figure of Zumbi dos Palmares, stands with his weight shifted to his right foot. He…

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…

Portrait sculpture of Harriet Tubman, seated in a chair and holding a book in her hand.

Harriet Tubman wears a nineteenth-century inspired dress. On her left shoulder sits a saw-whet owl, at her right foot rests a rabbit. She extends her right arm into the air, perpendicular to her body. Ten seashells are sculpted into the base of the…

Half bust portrait of Harriet Tubman situated in a meditation garden next to British Methodist Episcopal Church of Canada-Salem Chapel, St. Catharines, Ontario.

Bronze plaque with a portrait of Harriet Tubman based on a 1890s photograph.