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The Path of Thorns and Roses and The Place of Remembrance: Contrabands and Freedmen Cemetery Memorial (Alexandria, Virginia)
The Path of Thorns and Roses is an eighteen-foot-high sculpture that spirals upwards and includes six allegorical figures: Oppression (a semi-nude male figure), Struggle (a semi-nude male figure at the base of the sculpture), Sacrifice (a woman who…
Unwavering Courage in the Pursuit of Freedom (Wilmington, Delaware)
A multi-figure sculpture of Harriet Tubman and Thomas Garrett leads two fugitive enslaved persons, a semi-nude man and a fully clothed woman, along the Underground Railroad in Wilmington, Delaware. Tubman carries a baby in her arms and wears a head…
Step on Board (Boston, Massachusetts)
A high relief sculpture with Harriet Tubman and six figures: three women, two men, and a baby. All figures are clothed in nineteenth-century dress. Wearing a dress, shawl, and head wrap, Tubman strides forward, gesturing with her left hand and…
Harriet Tubman (first cast) (Mesa, Arizona)
The monument depicts Harriet Tubman leading a young African American boy by her left hand and holding a long walking stick in her right. She wears a brimmed hat, a long-sleeve shirt with a shawl wrapped around her neck, and a flowing skirt. As they…
Harriet Tubman (second cast) (Gainesville, Georgia)
The monument depicts Harriet Tubman leading a young African American boy by her left hand and holding a long walking stick in her right. She wears a brimmed hat, a long-sleeve shirt with a shawl wrapped around her neck, and a flowing skirt. As they…
Harriet Tubman (third cast) (Little Rock, Arkansas)
The monument depicts Harriet Tubman leading a young African American boy by her left hand and holding a long walking stick in her right. She wears a brimmed hat, a long-sleeve shirt with a shawl wrapped around her neck, and a flowing skirt. As they…
Harriet Tubman (fourth cast) (Ypsilanti, Michigan)
The monument depicts Harriet Tubman leading a young African American boy by her left hand and holding a long walking stick in her right. She wears a brimmed hat, a long-sleeve shirt with a shawl wrapped around her neck, and a flowing skirt. As they…
Memorial to the Underground Railroad (Battle Creek, Michigan)
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…
Harriet Ross Tubman Memorial (Bristol, Pennsylvania)
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…
Harriet Tubman (Salisbury, Maryland)
The bronze statue of Harriet Tubman is placed on a concrete base. Tubman wears a nineteenth-century inspired dress that she lifts with her left hand, creating a rippling effect in the bronze cloth. On her left shoulder sits a saw-whet owl, at her…