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Title
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Monuments to Resistance
Contributor
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Renée Ater
Description
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<div style="padding-right: 30%;">
<p>The monuments and memorials in this section commemorate the enslaved and free men and women who resisted bondage and worked to end the institution of slavery. In her book, <a href="https://yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300227116/slaves-cause" target="_blank" rel="noopener" title="The Slave's Cause"><em>The Slave's Cause: A History of Abolition</em></a>, historian Manisha Sinha examines the long history of Black resistance to chattel slavery. Resistance to enslavement took many forms—from rebellions aboard slave ships and on plantations to the enslaved slowing the pace of work, breaking tools, feigning illness, and escaping from bondage. <br /><br />The works in this section honor these diverse histories of resistance. The <em></em><em><a href="https://www.slaverymonuments.org/items/show/1122" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Amistad Memorial</a></em> in New Haven, Connecticut, recognizes Sengbe Pieh, who led a revolt of abducted Africans against their captors on the Spanish slave ship, the Amistad, while the<i> <a href="https://www.slaverymonuments.org/files/original/990388eb5485a0a89742679dfd40fb43.jpg" target="_blank" rel="noopener" title="Edmonson Sisters Memorial">Edmonson Sisters Memorial</a></i><a href="https://www.slaverymonuments.org/files/original/990388eb5485a0a89742679dfd40fb43.jpg" target="_blank" rel="noopener" title="Edmonson Sisters Memorial"> </a>in Alexandria, Virginia, celebrates the abolitionists and formerly enslaved sisters Mary and Emily Edmonson.</p>
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Written by Grace Yasumura
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Sculpture
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36 x 33.6 x 24 in. (91.44 x 85.34 x 60.96 cm.)
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<em>Henry "Box" Brown Memorial </em>(Richmond, Virginia)
Subject
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Subject (Topic)<br />Abolitionists--United States <br />Antislavery movements--United States<br />Mid-Atlantic United States<br />Public art <br />Public sculpture <br />Slavery--Emancipation
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Subject (Name)<br />Brown, Henry "Box," 1816-1897
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Subject (Object Type) <br />Commemorative sculpture
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JPEG
Language
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English
Type
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Visual Arts-Sculpture
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Box Brown Plaza, 1498 Dock Street, Richmond, Virginia, 23219, United States
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Renée Ater
Description
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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 crate marked "dried goods" from Richmond to Philadelphia. Brown would later become a well-known antislavery activist, attempting to assist other enslaved people to escape in crates.<br /><br />The memorial includes a bronze crate meant to resemble the wooden one that Brown used. The crate is open and an outline of a crouching human figure is inscribed on the back panel of the box. An informational placard is sited near the sculpture, which details the history of slavery in Richmond and Brown's escape.
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Photographs by Renée Ater
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<em><strong>Inscriptions on five sides of box:</strong></em><br />"Buoyed by the prospect of Freedom...I was willing to dare even death itself."<br /><br />"The idea flashed across my mind of shutting myself up in a box, and getting myself conveyed... to a free state."<br /><br />"I laid me down in my darkened home of three feet by two feet."<br /><br />"My friends...managed to break open the box, and then came my resurrection from the grave of slavery"<br /><br />"I arose a free man"
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<em><strong>An inscription on the stone base:</strong></em><br />"In a wooden crate similar to this one, Henry Brown, a Richmond tobacco worker, made the journey from slavery to freedom in 1849"
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36 x 33.6 x 24 in. (91.44 x 85.34 x 60.96 cm.)
Medium
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Bronze
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Unknown
Date
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2001
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City of Richmond, 900 East Broad Street, Richmond, Virginia, 23219
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<a href="https://www.pbs.org/black-culture/shows/list/underground-railroad/stories-freedom/henry-box-brown/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Henry "Box" Brown</a>
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City of Richmond, Richmond City Council Slave Trade Commission, and Venture Richmond.
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