<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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1200 S Street NW, Washington, DC, 20009, United States
<em>Camp Nelson National Monument</em> (Nicholasville, KY)
Subject (Topic)<br />Men--United States Colored Troops<br />Associations--Military<br />Southeastern United States
Subject (Type)
National Monument
<p class="p2"><span class="s1">Camp Nelson National Monument, formerly Camp Nelson Civil War Heritage Park, is a 525-acre national monument, historical museum, and park located in southern Jessamine County, Kentucky, 20 miles south of Lexington, Kentucky.</span><span class="s1"></span></p>
<p class="p2"><span class="s1">The camp was established in 1863 as a depot for the Union Army during the Civil War, becoming a recruiting ground for new soldiers from Eastern Tennessee and escaping freedom seekers.<br /></span></p>
<p class="p1"><span class="s1">Among the many African American freedom seekers who arrived at Camp Nelson, were the families— wives, children, elderly parents— of the men who would later enlist and serve in the Union Army. The women, children, and parents built (makeshift) settlements on the outskirts of the camp, fueled by racist assumptions about African American women’s sexuality, a number of the white officers erroneously feared that the African American women would spread venereal disease among the black soldiers and began to agitate for their removal (</span><span class="s1">Richard Spears. “John G. Fee, Camp Nelson, and Kentucky Blacks, 1864-1865.” T<i>he Register of the Kentucky Historical Society</i>, Vol. 85, No. 1 (Winter 1987), 34).<br /><br /></span><span class="s1">Moreover, the freedom seekers from Kentucky were particularly vulnerable as they were still legally owned by Kentuckians who never officially join the Confederacy. At various points over 1864 Commander Speed Smith Fry successfully expelled unwanted refugees from Camp Nelson.<br /><br />On November 23, 1864, Fry ordered the forcible expulsion of more than 400 women and children. Leaving almost no time to gather their possessions, mounted Union soldiers drove the women and children from the camp in freezing temperatures and then destroyed their makeshift homes. More than 100 freedom seekers perished in the freezing weather. To read an affidavit of a USCT soldier from Kentucky whose family was forcibly removed in November 1864 from Camp Nelson, click <a href="http://www.freedmen.umd.edu/JMiller.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">here. </a></span></p>
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National Park Service
Dedicated: October 26, 2018
National Park Service
<a href="https://www.nps.gov/cane/learn/historyculture/index.htm" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Camp Nelson, National Park Service</a>
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6614 Old Danville Road, Loop 2, Nicholasville, KY 40356, United States
<em>Captured Africans</em> (Lancaster, England)
Subject (Topic)<br />Middle Passage<br />Transatlantic Slave Trade<br />Slave Trade<br />Lancaster, United Kingdom
Subject (Object Type)<br />Commemorative sculpture
<p class="p1"><span class="s1">Six rectangular perspex blocks, suspended between a rectangular, stainless steel column and an oblong, stone column, rests on a circular base embellished with a mosaic and small metal sculptures. The work is meant to recall the decks of the transatlantic slave ships that carried enslaved Africans to the Americas. The six perspex blocks are inscribed with the names of the different commodity objects these ships transported to and from the Americas: wealth, cotton, rum, mahogany, sugar, and slaves. The stainless steel column lists many of the slave ships that departed from Lancaster and the number of slaves these vessels forcibly seized in Africa. Underscoring the history of these horrific nautical journeys, the mosaic depicts a map detailing the routes of the Transatlantic Slave Trade, while the metal figures personify the <span>trauma and violence of the Middle Passage.</span></span></p>
Dalton-Johnson, Kevin (sculpture)
Waymarking.com
Unveiled: October 10, 2005
Ann McArdle, (mosaics); Local young people (iron figures); Slave Trade Arts Memorial Project (STAMP); National Lottery (Millennium Commission)
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St George's Quay Lancaster, United Kingdom
<em>Clave</em> (Rotterdam, The Netherlands)
Subject (Topic) <br />Slavery <br />Middle Passage<br />Transatlantic Slave Trade<br />Slave Trade<br />Rotterdam, The Netherlands
Subject (Object Type)<br />Commemorative sculpture
Four nude figures dance across the abstracted bow of a ship. Each figure strikes a distinct, rhythmic pose even as they are shackled together at the ankle by iron chains. The outer most figure appears to have broken free from this rhythmic chain-gang-- iron chains dangle freely from his right ankle. The work, unveiled on the 150th anniversary of the abolition of slavery in Surinam and the Dutch Antilles, is located along the Maas River in Lloydkwartier, a newly designed neighborhood built in the old port area of Delfshaven. The work’s location and title evoke the Dutch slave trade. Clave refers to a rhythmic pattern used in Afro-Cuban music.
da Silva, Alex, 1974-
Art at Heart
Dedicated: June 16, 2013
To watch a video of the work, click <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=boHuPIEnpx8" target="_blank" rel="noopener">here.</a>
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Lloydstraat, 45-59, 3024 Rotterdam, The Netherlands
<em>Colored Union Soldiers Monument</em> (Hertford, NC)
Subject (Topic)<br />Men--United States Colored Troops<br />Associations--Military<br />American South<br />Public art<br />Public sculpture
Subject (Object Type)<br />Commemorative sculpture
The memorial consists of a rectangular stone marker that comes to a point and sits atop a concrete base. The marker is engraved with text on two sides and is accompanied by a North Carolina Civil War Trails marker and informational placard.
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Documenting the American South
Dedicated: 1910
United Daughters of Veterans
<a href="https://docsouth.unc.edu/commland/monument/117/">Colored Union Soldiers Monument, Hertford </a>
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King and Hyde Park Streets, Hertford, North Carolina, 27944, United States.
<em>Commemorative Sign to the United States Colored Troops of the Civil War</em>, Philadelphia National Cemetery (Philadelphia, PA)
Subject (Topic)<br />Men--United States Colored Troops<br />Associations--Military<br />Northeastern United States
<span>Subject (Object Type)<br />Commemorative placard</span>
The sign, located in Philadephia's National Cemetery is dedicated to the United States Colored Troops (USCT) buried there. The storyboard was installed in 2017 after a backlash against a 2015 150-year anniversary commemoration that honored Confederate troops but omitted the U.S.C.T.
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Kait Moore, Philadelphia Inquirer
Dedicated: April 21, 2018
Veterans Administration
<p><a href="https://ncph.org/history-at-work/hidden-in-plain-sight-cemeteries-and-civil-rights/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Hidden in plain sight: Cemeteries and civil rights</a> ;<br />To watch a video of the placecard dedication click <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XwgDD_mWDWA" target="_blank" rel="noopener">here</a> </p>
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Philadelphia National Cemetery, 6909 Limekiln Pike, Philadelphia, PA 19138, 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>Denmark Vesey Monument</em> (Charleston, SC)
<p>Subject (Topic)<br />Anti-slavery movements--United States<br />Public art<br />Public sculpture<br />Slave insurrections--South Carolina--Charleston<br />Slave revolt--South Carolina--Charleston<br />Slavery--South Carolina<br />South Carolina--History</p>
<p>Subject (Name)<br />Vesey, Denmark, 1767-1822</p>
<p>Subject (Object Type) <br />Commemorative sculpture</p>
<p>The work is dedicated to Denmark Vesey, a carpenter and self-educated black man who planned one of the most extensive slave revolt in U.S. history in Charleston, SC in 1822. Vesey, elegantly dressed in a collared jacket, trousers, and an exceedingly long and slim cravat, is shown holding his carpentry bag, his hat, and his Bible. The figure stands atop a massive granite pedestal that is inscribed on two sides with biographical and historical information about Vesey and his vital contributions to the fight for the emancipation of black people.</p>
Dwight, Ed, 1933-
Photographs by Izetta Autumn Mobley
Dedicated: February 8, 2014
Denmark Vesey and the Spirit of Freedom Monument Committee and City of Charleston.
City of Charleston, 80 Broad Street, Charleston, South Carolina, 29401, United States
To watch a video of the the monument's dedication, click <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QaQOovmfq6Q" target="_blank" rel="noopener">here.</a>
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Hampton Park, 30 Mary Murray Drive, Charleston, South Carolina, 29403, United States
<em>Desenkadena</em> (Willemstad, Curaçao)
Subject (Topic)<br />Slavery-Emancipation<br />Middle Passage<br />Transatlantic Slave Trade<br />Slave Trade<br />Diaspora <br />Willemstad, Curaçao
Subject (Object Type)<br />Commemorative sculpture
The over life-size bronze sculptural group depicts three figures, two men and one woman. As the title of the work, <em>Desenkadena</em> (unchained) suggests, the figures are breaking free from the chains that bind their wrists. The central figure is flanked by a man and woman, both of whom gaze at him as he breaks their chains. The “chain breaker,” a muscular, semi-nude man, stands in front of an anvil. Simon captures the figure mid-swing as he raises a hammer over his head with his right hand. In his left hand he holds iron chains in place with a chisel. The work commemorates the 1795 slave rebellion led by an enslaved person called Tula.
Simon, Nel, 1938-
Pinterest.com
Dedicated: October 17, 1998
To see how the work was made, click <a href="http://nelsimon.nl/en/16031/the_making_of_the_tula_monument_desenkadena_curacao/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">here.</a>
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Tula Monument, 4352+9F Willemstad, Curaçao
<em>Dred and Harriet Scott</em> (St. Louis, MO)
Subject (Topic)<br />Abolitionists--United States <br />Antislavery movements--United States<br />Public art <br />Public sculpture<br />Slavery-Emancipation
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Subject (Name)<br />Scott, Dred, 1799-1858<br />Scott, Harriet, 1815-1876
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Subject (Object Type) <br />Commemorative sculpture
A figurative statue of Dred and Harriet Scott. Dred Scott wears a suit with tie. He reaches his left arm behind Harriet Scott, embracing her; they also hold hands. Harriet Scott wears a full-length dress and turns her head upward.
Weber, Harry, 1942-
Photograph from <a href="https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q75117035" target="_blank" rel="noopener">WikiData</a>.
Dedicated: June 8, 2012
Dred Scott Heritage Foundation and National Park Service.
Regional Arts Commission of St. Louis (RAC), 6128 Delmar Boulevard, St. Louis, Ohio 63112
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Old Courthouse, 11 N. 4th Street, St. Louis, Missouri, 63102, United States