<em>Camp Barker Memorial</em> (Washington, DC)
Subject (Topic)<br />Civil War <br /><span>Refugee camps--History--19th century</span><br />Fugitive slaves--United States<br />Slaves--Emancipation--United States<br />Public art <br />Public sculpture<br />Mid-Atlantic United States
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Subject (Object Type) <br />Commemorative sculpture
"The Camp Barker Memorial frames the site’s history as Camp Barker, a Civil War ‘contraband camp’, with three entry gateways to a public elementary school in northwest Washington D.C. Union forces used the term contraband to describe formerly enslaved persons, who were considered captured enemy property. While the site’s original buildings were built as barracks for Union soldiers, they were soon transformed into housing for those escaping slavery. Living conditions in the camp were harsh, but gave rise to the enduring community of the surrounding neighborhood." From <a href="https://after-architecture.com/campbarkermemorial" target="_blank" rel="noopener">After Architecture</a>, 2019.
McDonald, Katie<br /><a href="https://after-architecture.com/office" target="_blank" rel="noopener">After Architecture</a>
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Schumann, Kyle<br /><a href="https://after-architecture.com/office" target="_blank" rel="noopener">After Architecture</a>
Photographs by Renée Ater
Dedicated: May 2019
Vinnie Bagwell (relief sculpture); Yun Associates, LLC (structural engineering); and Garrison Elementery School (DC Public Schools).
DC Public Schools, 1200 First Street, NE, Washington, DC, 20002
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Buildings and Structures
1200 S Street NW, Washington, DC, 20009, United States
<em>Corinth Contraband Camp</em> (Corinth, MS)
<p>Subject (Topic)<br />American South<br />Civil War<br />Corinth (Miss.)<br />Fugitive slaves--United States<br />Mississippi--History<br />Public art<br />Public sculpture<br />Refugee camps--Southern States--History--19th century<br />Slaves--Emancipation--United States<br /><br /></p>
<p>Subject (Object Type)<br />Commemorative sculpture</p>
Eight life-size bronze statues (in six groupings) commemorate the formerly enslaved persons who escaped from the South and sought safety and freedom behind Union lines at the Corinth Contraband Camp in Corinth, Mississippi. Established by Union General Grenville M. Dodge in 1862 to shelter freedom-seekers, the Corinth Contraband Camp featured a church, a school, a hospital, and numerous homes as well as productive and profitable farms that were operated by freedmen and women. The bronze statues include: a woman with her hands on her hips, “the greeter”; a laundress ironing clothes; a farmer tending to his crops with a hoe; a female teacher with a young female student who read together from an open Bible; a man and boy gathering books; and a member of the United States Colored Troops who pulls <em>Hardee's Rifle and Light Infantry Tactics</em> from his haversack . Included at the site: two bronze plaques with inscriptions attached to a concrete wall near the greeter; two bronze low reliefs on a concrete wall opposite the greeter; and an informational panel explaining farming at the site in front of the farmer.<br /><br />The two bronze low reliefs are based on nineteenth-century photographs: Timothy H. O'Sullivan, <a href="https://www.loc.gov/item/2018666225/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">[Rappahannock River, Va. Fugitive African Americans fording the Rappahannock]</a>, August 1862 and G.W. Foster, <a href="https://exploreuk.uky.edu/fa/findingaid/?id=xt77sq8qcb8z" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Refugee camp; street scene, Camp Nelson, Kentucky</a>, 1864.
Lugar, Larry, 1953-
Lugar, Andrea, 1952-
Photographs by Renée Ater
Dedicated: May 23, 2009
Siege and Battle of Corinth Commission (Rosemary Williams), Shiloh National Military Park (Superintendent Haywood “Woody” Harrell), Mississippi Department of Archives and History, and Corinth African-American Historical Society, and Preston Knight (Knight Brothers, Inc.).
National Park Service, U.S. Department of the Interior, 1849 C Street NW, Washington, DC 20240, United States
<a href="https://www.nps.gov/shil/learn/historyculture/corinth.htm" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Corinth Civil War Interpretative Center</a>
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800 N Parkway St, Corinth, Mississippi, 38834, United States
<em>Emancipation </em>(Boston, MA)<em><br /></em>
<p>Subject (Topic)<br />Allegory (Art)<br />Northeastern United States<br />Public art<br />Public sculpture<br />Slaves--Emancipation--United States</p>
<p>Subject (Object Type)<br />Commemorative sculpture</p>
The multi-figure sculpture is anchored around a truncated tree that reaches over the heads of the three human figures. The tree is roughly realized, and Fuller’s hand is evident in the surface treatment. At the center of the composition, a young woman and man stand upright and are semi-nude. The couple emerge from the “Tree of Knowledge.” Behind the male figure, the female figure of “Humanity,” clothed in a gown, bows her head and rests it on her raised left arm. She gently rests her right hand on the young man’s shoulder.
Fuller, Meta Warrick, 1877-1968
Photographs by Renée Ater
Dedication: June 20, 1999
CBA Landscape Architects, Boston, Massachusetts; United South End Settlements, Boston, Massachusetts; New England Foundation for the Arts, Boston, Massachusetts; The George B. Henderson Foundation and The Edgar Ingersoll Browne Fund, Boston, Massachusetts; and Boston Parks and Recreation
<p>National Center of Afro-American Artists, 300 Walnut Street, Roxbury, Massachusetts, United States</p>
<p>The Museum of Afro-American History, 46 Joy Street, Boston, Massachusetts, United States</p>
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Harriet Tubman Park, Columbus Avenue and Pembrook Street, Boston, Massachusetts, 02116, United States