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Title
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Frederick Douglass Monuments
Creator
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Written by Grace Yasumura
Contributor
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Renée Ater
Description
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<div style="padding-right: 30%;">
<p><a href="https://www.nps.gov/frdo/learn/historyculture/frederickdouglass.htm" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Frederick Douglass</a> (c. February 1818—February 20, 1895), one of the most brilliant orators of his generation, worked ceaselessly for the cause of abolition. Among his many achievements, Douglass became one of the early and important critical theorists of photography, a medium invented in 1839. In a series of lectures delivered between 1861-865, Douglass argued that photography had the power to shape people’s understandings of race and as such could be deployed to resist distorted representations of African Americans. Douglass, who was exceptionally aware of the power of his own image, sat for a number of portraits over several decades, circulating his image widely. His photographic portraits serve as the basis for a number of the works in this collection, including <a href="https://www.slaverymonuments.org/items/show/1193" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Ivan Schwartz’s <em>Frederick Douglass</em></a>, created for the New York Historical Society.</p>
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Still Image
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Original Format
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Sculpture
Physical Dimensions
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Statue and base: 132 in. (335.28 cm.)
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Title
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<em>Frederick Douglass Memorial</em> (Easton, MD)
Creator
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Carpenter, Jay Hall, 1961-
Subject
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<p>Subject (Topic)<br />Antislavery movements--United States<br />Abolitionists--United States<br />Maryland--History<br />Middle Atlantic States<br />Public art<br />Public sculpture<br />Slavery--Maryland<br /><br /><br /></p>
<p>Subject (Name)<br />Douglass, Frederick, 1818-1895</p>
<p>Subject (Object Type)<br />Commemorative sculpture</p>
Description
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Standing to the right of a lectern, Frederick Douglass is depicted as in elder statesman, with a furrowed brow and deep lines marking his face. Captured mid-speech, Douglass raises his right hand above his head in a rhetorical gesture, while his left-hand rests atop the lectern. The life-sized bronze figure rests on a base of stone. The work is located in front of the Maryland Circuit Court Judge’s Office in Easton, MD. Just to the right and in the same plaza is a monument to Confederate soldiers.
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Photographs by Renée Ater
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Dedication: June 18, 2011
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Frederick Douglass Honor Society (Eric Lowery, President); Town of Easton (Robert C. Wiley, Mayor); Talbot County Council (Dirck Bartlett, President); Frederick Douglass Monument Project of the Talbot County Historical Society, and the Frederick Douglass Memorial Action Committee.
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JPEG
Language
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English
Type
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Visual Arts-Sculpture
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11 N. Washington Street, Easton, Maryland, 21601, United States
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<p><em><strong>Inscription on granite base:</strong></em><br />DOUGLASS</p>
<p><em><strong>Inscription on bronze plaque on back of monument:</strong></em><br />"In a composite nation like ours, as before the law, there should be no rich, no poor, no high, no low, no white, no black, but common country, common citizenship, equal rights and common destiny."<br /><br />Frederick Douglass<br />1818-1895<br /><br />United States Marshall * Charge d'Affaires to the Dominican Republic * Minister to Haiti * Counselor to President Abraham Lincoln * Publisher * Author * Orator * Abolitionist * Slave</p>
Extent
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Statue and base: 132 in. (335.28 cm.)
Medium
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Bronze; Granite
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<p>Guy, Chris. "Douglass to Get Place by Easton Courthouse." <em>The Baltimore Sun</em>, March 17, 2004. Accessed October 31, 2019, <a href="https://www.baltimoresun.com/news/bs-xpm-2004-03-17-0403170268-story.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">https://www.baltimoresun.com/news/bs-xpm-2004-03-17-0403170268-story.html</a>.</p>
<p><em>Douglass Returns: The Dedication, June 16-19, 2011</em>. Program, The Town of Easton. Accessed May 23, 2020, <a href="https://eastonmd.gov/TempMedia/Douglass_booklet.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">https://eastonmd.gov/TempMedia/Douglass_booklet.pdf</a>.</p>
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Renée Ater
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Town of Easton, P.O. Box 520, Easton, Maryland, 21601, United States
abolitionist
anti-slavery
Frederick Douglass
Jay Hall Carpenter
Maryland
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Title
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Frederick Douglass Monuments
Creator
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Written by Grace Yasumura
Contributor
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Renée Ater
Description
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<div style="padding-right: 30%;">
<p><a href="https://www.nps.gov/frdo/learn/historyculture/frederickdouglass.htm" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Frederick Douglass</a> (c. February 1818—February 20, 1895), one of the most brilliant orators of his generation, worked ceaselessly for the cause of abolition. Among his many achievements, Douglass became one of the early and important critical theorists of photography, a medium invented in 1839. In a series of lectures delivered between 1861-865, Douglass argued that photography had the power to shape people’s understandings of race and as such could be deployed to resist distorted representations of African Americans. Douglass, who was exceptionally aware of the power of his own image, sat for a number of portraits over several decades, circulating his image widely. His photographic portraits serve as the basis for a number of the works in this collection, including <a href="https://www.slaverymonuments.org/items/show/1193" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Ivan Schwartz’s <em>Frederick Douglass</em></a>, created for the New York Historical Society.</p>
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Still Image
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Original Format
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Sculpture
Physical Dimensions
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Statue: 90 in. (228.6 cm.)
Base: 36 in. (91.44 cm.)
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Title
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<em>Frederick Douglass Monument</em> (University of Maryland, College Park, MD)
Creator
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Edwards, Andrew, 1965-
Date
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Dedicated: November 18, 2015
Subject
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<p>Subject (Topic)<br />Abolitionists--United States<br />Antislavery movements--United States <br />Middle Atlantic States<br />Maryland--History<br />Public art <br />Public sculpture<br />Slavery--Maryland</p>
<p>Subject (Name)<br />Douglass, Frederick, 1818-1895</p>
Subject (Object Type)<br />Commemorative sculpture
Description
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Full-size sculpture of Frederick Douglass portrays him in the middle of a speech, with one arm outstretched, and a copy of his autobiography under the other arm. His coat/cape billows out behind him in a swath of bronze.
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Photographs by Renée Ater
Contributor
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Ira Berlin and the North Stars; Facilities Management-UMD; Private donors; UMD Foundation; Maryland Commission on African American History and Culture; and Maryland Historical Trust.
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University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland, 20742, United States
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JPEG
Language
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English
Type
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Visual Arts-Sculpture
Coverage
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Frederick Douglass Square, 4130 Campus Drive, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland, 20742, United States
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<p><em><strong>Quotations on plaza bricks:</strong></em><br />"I was born in Tuckahoe, near Hillsborough, and about twelve miles from Easton, in Talbot County, Maryland."<br /><br />"I am a Marylander, and love Maryland and her people."<br /><br />"Once you learn to read, you will be forever free."<br /><br />"The blow we strike is not merely to free a country or continent--but the whole world from Slavery--for when Slavery falls here it will fall everywhere."<br /><br />"Until it shall be safe to leave the lamb in the hold of the lion, the laborer in power of the capitalist, the poor in the hands of the rich, it will not be safe to leave a newly emancipated people completely in the power of their former masters, especially when such masters have not ceased to be such from enlightened moral convictions but by irresistible force."<br /><br />"Education means . . . emancipation."<br /><br />"This right of speech is very dear to the hearts of intelligent lovers of liberty."<br /><br />"It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men."<br /><br />"All that distinguishes man as an intelligent and accountable being, is equally true of woman . . . there can be no reason in the world for denying a woman the exercise of the elective franchise or a hand in the making and administering the laws of the land."<br /><br />"In a composite nation like ours, as before the law, there should be no rich, no poor, no high, no low, no white, no black, but common country, common citizenship, equal rights, and a common destiny."</p>
<p><em><strong>Inscription on black marble base:</strong></em><br />Frederick Douglass 1818-1895<br />Abolitionist, Suffragist, Labor Leader <br />Stateman, Diplomat, Founding Father of the Second American Republic<br />Orator, Scholar, Journalist</p>
<p><em><strong>Quotations on corten panels:</strong></em><br />"The struggle may be a moral one, or it may be a physical one, and it may be both moral and physical, but [it] must be a struggle. Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and never will."<br /><br />"No man can put a chain about the ankle of his fellow man without at last finding the other end fastened about his own neck."<br /><br />"He who does not love Justice and Liberty for all, does not love Justice and Liberty."<br /><br />"Right is of no sex--Truth is of no color."</p>
<p><em><strong>Inscription on bronze plaque:</strong></em><br />The University of Maryland is grateful to the many individuals and organizations, particularly the Maryland Commission on African American History and Culture as well as the Maryland Historic Trust, part of the Maryland Department of Planning, who generously supported the creation of Frederick Douglass Square.</p>
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Bronze; Black marble; Brick; Corten steel
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<p>Brown, Crystal. “University of Maryland Dedicates Frederick Douglass Square to Honor Maryland Native Son.” <em>UMD Right NOW</em>, November 18, 2015. Accessed November 23, 2018, <a href="https://www.umdrightnow.umd.edu/news/university-maryland-dedicates-frederick-douglass-square-honor-marylands-native-son" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://www.umdrightnow.umd.edu/news/university-maryland-dedicates-frederick-douglass-square-honor-marylands-native-sonl</a>.</p>
<p>Arnett, Autumn A. “At UMD, New Frederick Douglass Square Illustrates State’s Racial Duality." <em>Diverse Issues in Higher Education</em>, November 24, 2015. Accessed November 23, 2018, <a href="https://diverseeducation.com/article/79147/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://diverseeducation.com/article/79147/</a>.</p>
<p><em>Frederick Douglass Remembered</em>. Ireland's Great Hunger Institute, Quinnipiac University. Accessed November 26, 2018, <a href="https://www.qu.edu/on-campus/institutes-centers/irelands-great-hunger-institute/frederick-douglass-remembered.html" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://www.qu.edu/on-campus/institutes-centers/irelands-great-hunger-institute/frederick-douglass-remembered.html</a>.</p>
Rights Holder
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Renée Ater
Alternative Title
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<em>Frederick Douglass Ireland Monument</em>
Extent
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Statue: 90 in. (228.6 cm.) <br />Base: 36 in. (91.44 cm.)
abolitionist
Andrew Edwards
anti-slavery
Frederick Douglass
Maryland
universities and slavery