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Baldwin Hall Memorial in Athens, Georgia,  includes a circular fountain with five rough granite columns of varied sizes.
The Baldwin Hall Memorial at the University of Georgia in Athens includes "a circular form for the memorial plaza, creating a focal point that will serve as a place of contemplation to honor and respect these individuals; an elevated fountain in the…

Freedmen's Memorial to Abraham Lincoln in Washington, DC, includes a bronze statue of Lincoln and kneeling, semi-nude Black man.
The sculptor Thomas Ball’s composition includes two figures, one fully clothed, the other semi-nude. Due to the dozens of photographs that survive from the 1860s, we recognize that the standing bearded man is Abraham Lincoln. Dressed in a shirt with…

Photograph of the William Seward and Harriet Tubman Statue outside the Schenectady Public Library in Schenectady, New York. View of the plaza in front of the library .
Placed outside the Schenectady County Public Library, a life-size statue of William Seward and Harriet Tubman stand on Mohawk Valley ordovician dolostone inside a garden bed. Seward stands with a cane in his right hand and his left arm around the…

Photograph of Frederick Douglass statue at West Chester University, West Chester, Pennsylvania. A ten-foot-tall bronze statue of a young Frederick Douglass casts his gaze forward and ever-so-slightly downward toward an imagined viewer.
The ten-foot-tall bronze statue of a young Frederick Douglass casts his gaze forward and ever-so-slightly downward toward an imagined viewer. Standing squarely forward, Douglass' left knee is slightly raised as if he were on the verge of walking off…

Photograph of the Edmonson Sisters Memorial in Alexandria, Virginia, shows the two sisters emerging from a large boulder.
Two young women emerge from a large rocky outcrop, their hands clasped tightly as they stride forward. The over life-sized work depicts the abolitionists and former enslaved sisters, Mary and Emily Edmonson. The statue is located on the site of the…

Originally placed in Cotonou, Republic of Benin, the bronze statue is now relocated to Ouidah. Unlike the version in Liverpool, this work includes the addition of bronze bas-relief designs, reflecting images related to the transatlantic slave trade, including cotton plants, chains, and industrial factories.
Originally placed in Cotonou, Republic of Benin, the bronze torsos of two abstracted figures, engaged in a tight embrace, emerge from a rectangular bronze base. Unlike the version in Liverpool, this work includes the addition of bronze bas-relief…

The Reconciliation Memorial in Liverpool is made up iron torsos of two abstracted figures, engaged in a tight embrace, emerge from a rectangular iron base. Two other identical sculptures were erected in 1989 in Belfast, Northern Ireland, and Glasgow, Scotland.
The iron torsos of two abstracted figures, engaged in a tight embrace, emerge from a rectangular iron base. Two other identical sculptures were erected in 1989 in Belfast, Northern Ireland, and Glasgow, Scotland. According to the artist, Stephen…

The Reconciliation Memorial in Richmond, Virgina, is comprised of  bronze torsos of two abstracted figures, engaged in a tight embrace, emerging from a rectangular bronze base. This work includes the addition of bronze low-relief designs, reflecting images related to the slave trade, including a topographic map of the James River, birds following slave ships, chains with manacles, and a port with lifts pulling up cotton bales.
The bronze torsos of two abstracted figures, engaged in a tight embrace, emerge from a rectangular bronze base. This work includes the addition of bronze low-relief designs, reflecting images related to the slave trade, including a topographic map of…

Photograph of the Emancipation Statue (Bussa), holding broken chains in his hands. Located in Bridgetown, Barbados.
The monumental bronze statue depicts a semi-nude figure, dressed only in shorts. He raises his arms in a triumphant gesture, which accentuates the broken chains around his wrists. The identity of the figure is thought to be the leader of the April…

Truth is carrying a Bible in her right hand, and steps forward on her right leg.
Truth's body is modeled in contrapposto, an Italian art term that describes a classical body postion with a subject's weight shifted to one side to suggest liveliness and motion. In this statue, Truth steps forward with her body weight on the left…
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