Subject (Topic)
Abolitionists--United States
Anti-slavery movements--United States
Michigan--History
Midwestern United States
Public art
Public sculpture
Slavery--Michigan
Subject (Name)
Douglass, Frederick, 1818-1895
Subject (Object Type)
Commemorative sculpture
Bronze plaque on granite base:
Frederick Douglass
Dedicated May 11, 2017, in proud recognition of the speech given at Hillsdale College by Frederick Douglass on January 11, 1863
"Neither law, learning, nor religion, is addressed to any man’s color or race. Science, education, the Word of God, and all the virtues known among men, are recommended to us, not as races, but as men. We are not recommended to love or hate any particular variety of the human family more than any other. Not as Ethiopians; not as Caucasians; not as Mongolians; not as Afro-Americans, or Anglo-Americans, are we addressed, but as men. God and nature speak to our manhood, and to our manhood alone. Here all ideas of duty and moral obligation are predicated."
—Blessing of Liberty and Education—September 3, 1894
With Gratitude to Mr. James Nagy in Memory of his beloved Wanda Nagy
Dr. & Mrs. Larry Arnn
Bruce Wolfe—Sculptor
"Frederick Douglass: A Brief History." Hillsdale College Blog. Accessed May 24, 2020, https://www.hillsdale.edu/frederick-douglass/.
"Hillsdale College Unveils Statue of Frederick Douglass." Press Relase, News and Media, Hillsdale College. Accessed May 24, 2020, https://www.hillsdale.edu/news-and-media/press-releases/hillsdale-college-unveils-statue-frederick-douglass/.
"A Man Worth Emulating: Frederick Douglass Statue Dedicated on Hillsdale's Liberty Walk." Hillsdale College Blog. Accessed May 24, 2020, https://www.hillsdale.edu/hillsdale-blog/hillsdale-magazine/worth-emulating-frederick-douglass/.
"Frederick Douglass, Statue Unveiling at Hillsdale College." Bruce Wolfe. Accessed May 24, 2020, https://www.brucewolfe.com/frederick-douglass/.
Subject (Topic)
Abolitionists--United States
Anti-slavery movements--United States
Maryland--History
Middle Atlantic States
Public art
Public sculpture
Slavery--Maryland
Subject (Name)
Douglass, Frederick, 1818-1895
Subject (Object Type)
Commemorative sculpture
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
Subject (Topic)
Abolitionists--United States
Anti-slavery movements--United States
Public art
Public sculpture
New York--History
Northeastern United States
Subject (Name)
Douglass, Frederick, 1818-1895
Subject (Object Type)
Commemorative sculpture
Inscription at base of sculpture:
Frederick Douglass Circle
Vinne Bagwell
2008
Inscription on sheet in Douglass' hand:
"Until color shall cease to be a bar to equal participation in the offices and honor of the country, this discussion will go on... Until the American people shall make character and not color the criterion of respectability, this discussion will go on..." --1883
Inscription on granite circle:
Need text
Bagwell, Vinnie, "Frederick Douglass Circle." Coda Worx. Accessed October 31, 2019: https://www.codaworx.com/project/frederick-douglass-circle-hofstra-university.
"Hofstra Happenings-Special 2008: Historic Sculpture Dedicated at Hofstra University." Hofstra Magazine, December 14, 2007. Accessed May 23, 2020, https://news.hofstra.edu/2007/12/14/hofstra-happenings-special-2008/.
Subject (Topic):
Abolitionists--United States
Anti-slavery movements--United States
Public art
Public sculpture
New York--History
Northeastern United States
Women's suffrage
Subject (Name):
Douglass, Frederick, 1818-1895
Anthony, Susan B., 1820-1806
Subject (Object Type):
Commemorative sculpture
Torre, Jose. "'Let’s Have Tea' Statue: Susan B. Anthony Square on Madison Street." The Douglass Tour. Accessed October 31, 2019, http://www.douglasstour.com/tour/susan-b-anthony-square/.
"Susan B. Anthony Square Park." Historic Rochester, City of Rochester, NY. Accessed May 23, 2020, https://www.cityofrochester.gov/article.aspx?id=8589936553.
Subject (Topic)
Abolitionists--United States
Antislavery movements--United States
Middle Atlantic States
Pennsylvania--History
Public art
Public sculpture
Subject (Name)
Douglass, Frederick, 1818-1895
Subject (Object Type)
Commemorative sculpture
Inscription on granite base:
Frederick Douglass
Frederick Douglass gave his last public lecture on West Chester's campus on Feb. 1, 1895.
This statue of a younger Frederick Douglass honors a champion of human rights whose lifelong quest for knowledge and truth made him a timeless voice for justice, freedom, and equality for all.
Cummings, Colleen. "WCU Erects Statue to Honor Frederick Douglass." The Quad, October 14, 2013. Accessed October 31, 2019, https://wcuquad.com/103691/news/wcu-erects-statue-to-honor-frederick-douglass/.
Garrard, Jeremy. "WCU Unveils Frederick Douglass Statue." Daily Local News, October 2, 2013. Accessed May 23, 2020, https://www.dailylocal.com/news/wcu-unveils-frederick-douglass-statue/article_5603ef47-0e70-58ca-a0fb-a1598f6e5857.html.
Subject (Topic)
Abolitionists--United States
Antislavery movements--United States
Public art
Public sculpture
New York--History
Northeastern United States
Slavery--New York (State)
Subject (Name)
Douglass, Frederick, 1818-1895
Subject (Object Type)
Commemorative sculpture
Inscription on granite block 1:
Born Frederick Augustus Bailey, 1818, talbot county, Maryland.
Inscription on granite block 2:
Married Anna Murray in 1838, who died in 1882.
Inscription on granite block 3:
Married Helen Pitts in 1884.
Inscription on granite block 4:
"Whatever may be said as to a division of duties and avocations, the rights of man and the rights of woman are one and inseparable, and stand upon the same indestructible basis." -1851
Inscription on granite block 5:
"The flight was a bold and perilous one; but here I am, in the great city of new york, safe and sound, without the loss of blood or bone." -1855
Inscription on granite block 6:
"Such is my detestation of slavery, that I would keep the merciless slaveholder profoundly ignorant of the means of flight adopted by the slave. he should be left to imagine himself surrounded by myriads of invisible tormentors..." -1855
Inscription on granite block 7:
"Of my father I know nothing. Slavery had no recognition of fathers, as none of families." -1845
Inscription on granite block 8:
"If there is no struggle there is no progress. Those who profess to favor freedom and yet deprecate agitation...Want crops without plowing up the ground...They want the ocean without the awful roar of its many waters...Power concedes nothing without a demand." -1857
Inscription on pavement:
"Right is of no sex - truth is of no color - god is the father of us all, and we are all brethren" -Masthead of the North Star
Inscription on north end of fountain.
Frederick Douglass
1818-1895
Born into slavery in Maryland, Frederick Bailey found the way to freedom along the underground railroad in 1838. Disguised as a sailor, he traveled to manhattan by ship, and found shelter at the house of abolitionist David Ruggles on Lispenard Street. There, he awaited the arrival of his fiancee, Anna Murray, a free black woman from Maryland. They married, and together continued bailey's freedom journey to Massachusetts, where he changed his name to Douglass. Lauded for his oration, he became a prominent abolitionist and purchased his legal freedom from slavery. Publisher of the abolitionist journal the north star, he championed freedom for all Americans and endorsed women's suffrage. Douglass later held posts as assistant secretary of the Santo Domingo Commission (1871), Marshall of the District of Columbia (1877-1881) and U.S. Minister to Haiti (1889-1891). Following the death of his wife in 1884, Douglass married Helen Pitts. He died in Washington, D.C. On February 20, 1895.
Inscription on south end of fountain:
Gabriel Koren, sculptor
Algernon Miller, site artist
December 2005
Inscription across fountain with constellations:
"The types of mankind are various. They differ like the waves, but they are one like the sea."
". . . Under the flickering light of the north star behind some craggy hill or snow covered mountain, stood a doubtful freedom - half frozen - beckoning us to come and share its hospitality."
"Frederick Douglass Memorial." Central Park, Monuments, New York City Department of Parks and Recreation. Accessed October 31, 2019, https://www.nycgovparks.org/parks/central-park/monuments/2098.
"Harlem Focus: Public Monuments: Art in Collaboration with Landscape Design." Cooper Hewett, Smithsonian Design Museum, May 9, 2013. Accessed May 23, 2020, https://www.cooperhewitt.org/tag/algernon-miller/ and https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=4&v=5K_LVkcVq-g&feature=emb_logo.
Subject (Topic)
Antislavery movements--United States
Abolitionists--United States
Maryland--History
Middle Atlantic States
Public art
Public sculpture
Slavery--Maryland
Subject (Name)
Douglass, Frederick, 1818-1895
Subject (Object Type)
Commemorative sculpture
Inscription on granite base:
DOUGLASS
Inscription on bronze plaque on back of monument:
"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."
Frederick Douglass
1818-1895
United States Marshall * Charge d'Affaires to the Dominican Republic * Minister to Haiti * Counselor to President Abraham Lincoln * Publisher * Author * Orator * Abolitionist * Slave
Guy, Chris. "Douglass to Get Place by Easton Courthouse." The Baltimore Sun, March 17, 2004. Accessed October 31, 2019, https://www.baltimoresun.com/news/bs-xpm-2004-03-17-0403170268-story.html.
Douglass Returns: The Dedication, June 16-19, 2011. Program, The Town of Easton. Accessed May 23, 2020, https://eastonmd.gov/TempMedia/Douglass_booklet.pdf.
Subject (Topic)
Abolitionist--United States
Antislavery movements--United States
New York--History
Northeastern United States
Public art
Public sculpture
Underground Railroad
Subject (Name)
Tubman, Harriet, 1822-1913
Seward, William Henry, 1801-1872
Subject (Object Type)
Commemorative sculpture
Bronze plaque:
William Seward 1801-1872
Harriet Tubman 1822-1913
Leaders Freedom Diversity Friendship
"By the People for the People"
Abraham Lincoln
Mohawk Valley Ordovician Dolostone
2019
Sculptor/Caster Dexter Benedict
Williams, Stephen. "Statue of Tubman and Seward Unveiled at Library." The Daily Gazette News, May 17, 2019. Accessed September 30, 2019, https://dailygazette.com/article/2019/05/17/statue-of-tubman-and-seward-unveiled-at-library.
Subject (Topic)
African American history
Alexandria (Va.)--History
American South
Freedmen--Virginia
Public art
Public sculpture
Resistance
Subject (Object Type)
Commemorative sculpture
Plaque at the entrance to the Alexandria African American Heritage Park (left):
From the establishment of Alexandria in 1749 to the present time, African Americans have been a vibrant part of this city’s history. The City of Alexandria would not exist in its present form were it not for the economic, social, and cultural contributions of African Americans both slave and free. As Alexandria developed in the 19th century, African Americans began to establish enclaves with distinctive names and characteristics. Many of these areas such as: The Berg, The Bottoms, Cross Canal, Hayti, The Hump, Sunnyside, and Uptown survive today and retain historical significance for African Americans currently living in Alexandria. From these original African American neighborhoods, a sense of community developed, which led to the creation of churches, schools, civic and social organizations. these memorial sculptures in this park highlight people and institutions important to Alexandria’s African American heritage.
The land for this memorial is of special significance. In 1885 this parcel of land was purchased by the Black Baptist Cemetery Association and a number of gravesites remain here. Hooff’s Run, which runs through this site provided access to the Potomac River and the town of Alexandria for a variety of traders and retailers. By the middle of the 19th century, railroads provided a new transportation system. Established about 1851, the first railroad in this vicinity was the Orange and Alexandria which passed through this land on its way from the town center to more western parts of Virginia.
The Norfolk Southern Corporation has set aside this land as a memorial to recognize and celebrate and commemorate African American contributions to the Alexandria community. The Alexandria African American Heritage Park, a gift to the City from the Norfolk Southern Corporation, will contribute to the rich cultural heritage of Alexandria. The history and accomplishments of African American leaders will stimulate young people to develop esteem, hope, determination, and pride in themselves. The memorial park coexists with the original landscape of the cemetery and preserves the interesting and varied plant life on this site. The design creates an atmosphere suitable for nature walks or meditation.
Plaque at the entrance to Alexandria African American Heritage Park (right):
Truths That Rise From The Roots — Remembered
We bury more than our bodies at rest
Deep within the forgiving soil
We bury as well our
Our dreams, our legends, our revelry, our toil
Here is where we enshrine our wisdom
To be joined with that of our yesteryears
And here is where our tomorrows are planted
As lessons learned against future fears
The artistic works incorporated into this Memorial/Park offer a symbolic testament to the efforts and accomplishments of a great many local individuals, institutions and organizations both past and present. The names and images etched upon these forms, as an acknowledgment of but some of those who have ’passed this way before’, represent the foundation, the builders, the source and substance of this historic and vibrant community. As a context in which history and art are joined this public-art setting serves as a cultural marker — a communal space in which the sons and daughters of the here and now celebrate and honor the heroes of their past.
Jerome B. Meadows — Artist
Zoe Briscoe — Research, Technical Assistant
Park Design — EDAW
Etching on the commemorative grave mound sculpture:
Black Baptist Cemetery Association 1885
From the past they speak, in varied voice and familiar faces
Mary Rome
Matilda Gaines
Sarah Hunter
Abraham Hunter
Julia Ann Washington
Etching on the tree nearest to commemorative grave mound, left side:
Education
Alexandria Academy
Washington Free School
Mt. Hope Academy 1837-1843
Alfred Perry
Sylvia Morris
Lancasterian School
Society of Friends
American Baptist Free Mission Society
Mary Chase 1861
Saint Robe Institute 1881
Jane A. Crouch
Miss Sarah Gray
First Select Colored School 1862
Rev. and Mrs. Robinson
Rev. G.W. Parker
Amanda Borden
The First Free Colored Mission Day School 1863
Union Town School 1863
Nancy Williams
The Primary School 1863
William K. Harris
Richard H. Lyles
Newtown School 1863
Anna Bell Davis
Leannah Powell
The Sickles Barracks School 1863
The Jacobs Free School 1864
Louisa Jacobs
Harriet Jacobs
Miss S.Y. Lawton
Miss E.M. Lawton
First National Freedmen’s School 1864
Harriet Byron Douglass 1864
Second National Freedmen’s School
Rev. M.F. Sluby
Laura Phenix
Miss M.F. Simms
Mary M. Nickens
The Washington St. School
Miss L.V. Lewis
Etching on the tree nearest to commemorative grave mound, right side:
Education
Pennsylvania Freedmen’s Relief Association 1865
Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen and Abandoned Lands
Gustavus Lumpkins 1867
First Free School Society of Alexandria
George Seaton
George W. Bryant
Anthony L. Perpener
Hannibal King
James Piper
George P. Douglas
John H. Davis
Samuel W. Madden
J. Mck. Ware
Charles Watson
George W. Parker
Rev. Clem Robinson
George W. Sims
Snowden School for Boys
William F. Powell
Carrie Claggett
John Parker
Patrick H. Lumpkins
Hallowell School for Girls
Matilda A. Madden
Parker-Gray School 1920
Henry T. White
Laura Dorsey
Susie P. Madden
Margaret T. Young
Sarah D. Gray
Harriet Thornton
James B. Howard
Rozier D. Lyles
Mamie
E. Anderson
Rev. A.W. Adkins
Wesley Elam
William Pitts
Ferris Holland
Louis Johnson
Edward L. Patterson
John T. Butler
Lyles-Crouch Elementary School
Julia Pritchett
Seminary School
Geraldine Stevenson
St. Joseph’s Catholic School
The Oblate Sisters of Providence
Sister Mary John Bearchmann
Sister Mary Eusebius
Charles Houston Elementary School
Helen L. Davis
Martha Millier-Kindergarten
Saretta N. Cope-Kindergarten
Etching on the second tree from the commemorative grave mound, left side:
Religion
Alfred Street Baptist Church 1801
Jesse Henderson
Evans Williams
Daniel Taylor
Rev. Samuel Madden
Rev. Alexander A. Truatt
Rev. Andrew W. Adkins
“Old Zion” Methodist Church 1832
Roberts Memorial United Methodist Church 1832
James Harper
Francis Hoy
James Evans
Philip Hamilton
Simon Turley
Rev. James Thomas
Rev. Robert H. Robinson
Rev. James Howard
Beulah Baptist Church 1863
Rev. Clem Robinson
Zion Baptist Church 1864
Rev. Robert Woodson, Pastor
Shiloh Baptist Church 1865
Rev. Charles H. Rodgers
Rev. Leland Warring
Second Baptist Church
Third Baptist Church 1865
Rev. Samuel Stewart
Rev. Samuel Ross
Meade Memorial Espiscopal Church 1869
Rev. J.W.M. Powell
Canon John G. Davis
Ebenezer Baptist 1880
Rev. Field Cooke
Rev. L. Henry Bailey
Rev. W. Howard Stanton
Rev. N.B. Hargraves
Rev. Austin A. Booker
Good Shepard Episcopal Chapel 1880
St. Cyprian’s Episcopal Mission
Etching on the second tree from the commemorative grave mound, right side:
Religion
Mt. Jezreel 1890
Rev. Coleman
Rev. O.L. Miles
Oakland Baptist Church 1891
Rev. E.R. Jackson
Clara Adams
William Carpenter
Brook Johnson
William Jerrell
John W. Casey
Maggie Hall
Smith Wahler
Daniel Simms, Jr.
Nancy Shepherd
Harriet Short
Matilda Woods
Mollie Nelson
St. Joseph’s Catholic Church 1915
Thomas Blair
Katie Bowman
Carrie Crouch
John Johnson
John Parker
Tabernacle of God and Saints of Christ 1921
St. John’s Baptist Church 1926
Rev. and Mrs. J.G. West
Deacon David Askew
Deacon Raymond
Deacon Holmes
Bethel Presbyterian Church
Community Presbyterian Church 1928
Rev. Richard B. Strong
United House of Prayer
Russell Temple C.M.E. 1941
Alleyne AME Zion Church 1949
Rev. Frederick Douglass Williams
Rev. Grayson Kelch
Etching on the third tree from the commemorative grave mound, left side:
Civic
Thomas Fuller - 1789
Bejamin Banneker - 1791
William Goddard
Dominick Bearcroft
Alexander Bryan - 1833
Mary Savoy - 1839
David Jarbour
H. Dulany - 1850
Mary Cole
John Williams
Moses Hepburn
John Hepburn
Henry Anderson
Charles Watson
George Seaton
John Seaton
Nellie Whiting
Magnus L. Robinson
Norman B. Pinn
Freeman N.M. Murray
The Home News, 1900
Edmund Hill
W. Walter Jackson
Murray Brothers Printers, 1903
Raymond H. Murray
F. Morris Murray
Norman D. Murray
Miss. Susie B. Buckner
Florence Murray
Lewis Smith
Samuel A. Tucker
L.H. Williams
Alexandria Home Bakery
John W. Jackson
Margaret Evans
Washington Jackson
Thomas Arrington
Laura Watson
Harriet Ware
Etching on the third tree from the commemorative grave mound, right side:
Civic
Professor T.E. Dulany
C. William Gray
W.C. Arnold
Lloyd Lewis
Richard N. Poole
Henry Brooks
Mrs. Mattie Brooks
Mrs. Katie Skinner
Mrs. Lorraine Funn Atkins
Mrs. Annie B. Rose
Mrs. Connie Chissell
George Gaddis
Arthur Bracey
Library Sit-In - 1939
B. Wilbert Tucker
Morris Murray
Edward Gaddis
Clarence "Buck" Strange
Sgt. George Watson
Doctors
Albert Johnson - 1892
J. Milton Hopkins - c. 1894
Frederick P. barrier - c. 1917
Oswald Durant
Henry Ladrey
C. Aubrey Lindo
Abe Penn
Paul Piper
Charles West
Herbert G. Chissell
James Carpenter
Newman C. Taylor
Frederick Perry
W. Lee Harris
Elijah E. Lacey
T. Bernard Blue
William Skinner
Lawyers
James Webster
Thomas Watson
William Macmurray
J. Byron Hopkins
Alfred Collins
Judge Joseph Waddy
James Raby
Cressey, Pamela. “Sculpture Provides Inspriation.” Alexandria Gazette Packet, July 20, 1995. Accessed August 14, 2019, https://www.alexandriava.gov/historic/info/default.aspx?id=42988.
Anderson, Adrian D. The African American Heritage Park, Alexandria, Virginia. Minneapolis, MN: Tellus Consultants, 1992. Accessed August 14, 2019, https://www.alexandriava.gov/uploadedFiles/historic/info/archaeology/SiteReportAnderson1992AfricanAmericanHeritagePark.pdf.