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Photograph of Let's Have Tea (Frederick Douglass and Susan B. Anthony Monument) in Susan B. Anthony Park in Rochester, New York. Douglass and Anthony sit at table with a tea service.
Seated in simple wooden chairs, Frederick Douglass and Susan B. Anthony engage in conversation over tea. On a table between them sits a tea pot, two teacups and saucers, and two books. Douglass leans forward, his gaze cast slightly downward,…

Lorain Station 100 monument at Black River Landing in Lorain, Ohio, with bas-relief and benches.
A low relief depicts three freedom seekers against the map of Ohio: a father, mother, and young boy. The male figure is show in profile wearing a soft brimmed hat, holding a walking cane, and dressed in simple shirt and pants with worn shoes ( a hole…

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…

The Memorial Cap 110 in Martinique overlooks the sea and commemorates both the enslaved people who perished in a shipwreck off the coast of Martinique in 1830, and more generally, the tens of thousands of enslaved Africans who were taken to Martinique as part of the transatlantic slave trade. Arranged in a triangle the 15 concrete figures.
The memorial, which overlooks the sea, commemorates both the enslaved people who perished in a shipwreck off the coast of Martinique in 1830, and more generally, the tens of thousands of enslaved Africans who were taken to Martinique as part of the…

Photograph of the entrance to the Mémorial de l'abolition de l'esclavage in Nantes, France with a Corten steel sign etched with the name of the memorial that is set into a concrete wall.
Erected as a space to remember the atrocities of slavery and to commemorate all past and present efforts to resist it, the memorial was constructed in Nantes—the former center of the French slave trade. Designed by an artist and an architect, it…

The Memorial to Enslaved Laborers at the University of Virginia consists of two granite circles nestled into the grassy landscape. The interior wall of this outer ring bears the engraved names of known enslaved laborers at the University, along with placeholders for those whose names remain unknown.
The memorial consists of two granite circles nestled into the grassy landscape. The exterior surface of the outer ring is ribbed and textured with shallow depressions designed to catch light and shadow. From a certain angle, the eyes of Isabella…

Photograph of the Memorial to Robert Gould Shaw and the Massachusetts Fifty-fourth Infantry Regiment on Boston Common in Boston, Massachusetts. An equestrian monument with Shaw astride horse and a bas-relief of marching Black soldiers of the 54th.
The memorial commemorates Colonel Robert Gould Shaw and members of the Massachusetts 54th Volunteer Infantry Regiment, the first African American regiment to be formed in the North during the American Civil War. Shaw, the regiment’s leader, is shown…

Photograph of the Memorial to the 2nd Regiment Infantry, U.S. Colored Troops in Fort Myers, Florida. A USCT soldier holds a rifled musket with the butt resting against the ground. He is flanked on either side by two concrete walls.
The over life-sized work depicts a sergeant in the United States Colored Troops 2nd Regiment standing in front of an open gate within a wall. The soldier is framed by two granite plaques mounted on each wall. The plaque on the left is a description…

Memorial to the Underground Railroad in Battle Creek, Michigan, is a multifigure statue that includes portraits of Erastus and Sarah Hussey, abolitionists and Underground Railroad conductors in southern Michigan as well as an image of Harriet Tubman.
At the front of the monument are full-size statues of Erastus Hussey and Harriet Tubman. On the left, Erastus sports mutton-chop whiskers and is dressed a long coat and trousers. He gestures behind him to Sarah Hussey who holds a lantern in her left…

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…
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