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Photograph of the monument to the Three Rebel Queens of the Virgin Islands in St. Thomas, U.S. Virgin Islands.
The memorial shows three women facing outward, the leaders of the "Fireburn" Uprising in 1878, the largest labor revolt in Danish colonial history. Dressed in floor-length dresses and aprons, each figure carries objects related to their resistance.…

Photograph of L’arbre de la liberté  from Schoelcher, Martinique. Eight abstract human and plant forms on the Esplanade des Arawaks.
Facing the Caribbean Sea, the memorial consists of eight abstracted forms, some of which are rectilinear and geometric, and others more curvilinear with rounded organic forms. The bronze figures are embellished with symbols, which according to the…

Photograph of the Mémorial ACTe in Pointe-à-Pitre, Guadeloupe, an elongated building that measures 240 meters and is covered with silver grids that represent the roots of the fig trees that grow on the abandoned buildings.
Mémorial ACTe is located on the the site of the former Darboussier sugar refinery on the waterfront in Pointe-à-Pitre, Guadeloupe."The memorial consists of an imposing elongated building that measures 240 meters and is covered with silver grids that…

Freedom Crossing Monuments is focused on a family of freedom seekers including a father, mother and baby; Lewiston's Underground Railroad Station Master, Josiah Tryon; and the fictional heroine, Laura Eastman, from the Freedom Crossing book.
The monument consists of five bronze sculptures. The subjects are a family of freedom seekers including a father, mother and baby; Lewiston's Underground Railroad Station Master, Josiah Tryon; and the fictional heroine, Laura Eastman, from the…

Photograph of the Harriet Ross Tubman Memorial in Bristol, Pennsylvania, along the Delaware River.  A statue of Harriet Tubman on a plinth around surrounded by eight short columns.
The single bronze figure of Harriet Tubman stands atop a black granite plinth. Tubman wears a coat, haversack slung over her right shoulder, and a pistol at her waist. Tubman's right arm is raised to the sky as she points her right hand toward the…

Photograph of Meta Warrick Fuller's Emancipation in Boston, Massachusetts, with semi-nude male and female figures in bronze.
Originally created in 1913 for the National Emancipation Exposition in New York City, 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…

Menokin Remembrance Structure in Warsaw, Virginia, is a wooden structure that replicates an enslaved person’s eighteenth-century dwelling.
The Menokin Remembrance Structure is a memorial that honors the enslaved persons who once worked at Menokin, as well as their modern descendants. Built on a former plantation, the wooden structure replicates an enslaved person’s eighteenth-century…

Photograph of Redemption Song in Kingston, Jamaica. Statue of a male and female nude figures, shown from the knees up, face one another as they gaze skyward.
Redemption Song centers two bronze nude figures, a Black female and a Black male. Laura Facey modeled the figures from the knees up, standing in a cast-iron domed fountain and with water flowing at their knees. They face one another as they tip their…

Photograph of I Am Queen Mary statue. The statue is an allegorical portrait of Mary Thomas, known as Queen Mary, an enslaved woman who worked on a sugar cane planation in the Danish West Indies (now Saint Croix, U.S. Virgin Islands). She led the largest labor revolt in Danish colonial history, the "Fireburn" Uprising in 1878.
The statue is an allegorical portrait of Mary Thomas, known as Queen Mary, an enslaved woman who worked on a sugar cane planation in the Danish West Indies (now Saint Croix, U.S. Virgin Islands). She led the largest labor revolt in Danish colonial…

A late-nineteenth century bronze statue, the figure o Douglass stands on a tall granite plinth.
Sculptor Stanley W. Edwards modeled Douglass with his shoulders back, feet planted squarely forward, and his arms outstretched with his palms open as if he were addressing an audience. Mounted on the statue's pedestal are four bronze plaques, three…
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