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Gateway to Freedom: International Memorial to the Underground Railroad (Detroit, MI )
Two gateway pillars (approximately fifteen feet tall), topped with candles symbolizing the “Flame of Freedom,” flank Ed Dwight's memorial to the Underground Railroad. The work, which overlooks the Detroit River, includes a ten-by-twelve-foot…
Gilt of Cain (London, England)
Located near St. Mary Woolnoth Church, where the abolitionist William Wilberforce heard the anti-slavery sermons of the Rev. John Newton, the monument consists of 17 carved granite columns clustered around a granite podium. The curvilinear forms of…
Graffiti Harriet (empheral)
A monumental sculpture of Harriet Tubman made of soil, clay, and straw, is scrawled with the words from Frederick Douglass. The sculpture is made from perishable materials, meant to dissolve over the winter. Scott designed the sculpture so that…
Haitian Monument (Savannah, GA)
The Haitian Monument commemorates the contributions of the Chasseurs-Volontaires de Saint-Domingue, a French regiment of free men of African descent, during the American Revolution. The work depicts five uniformed and armed soldiers, rifles pointed…
Harriet Ross Tubman Memorial (Bristol, PA)
Single figure of Harriet Tubman, wearing a coat, haversack slung over her right shoulder, and a pistol at her waist. Tubman points her right hand toward the sky, symbolic of the “North Star.” Signed by the artist: James L. Gafgen, 2005. Foundry…
Harriet Tubman Memorial Plaque (Auburn, NY)
Bronze plaque with a portrait of Harriet Tubman based on a 1890s photograph.
Harriet Tubman (Salem Chapel, St. Catharines, Ontario)
Half bust portrait of Harriet Tubman situated in a meditation garden next to British Methodist Episcopal Church of Canada-Salem Chapel, St. Catharines, Ontario.
Harriet Tubman (Salisbury University, Salisbury, MD)
Harriet Tubman wears a nineteenth-century inspired dress. On her left shoulder sits a saw-whet owl, at her right foot rests a rabbit. She extends her right arm into the air, perpendicular to her body. Ten seashells are sculpted into the base of the…
Harriet Tubman (St. Catharines, Ontario)
Portrait sculpture of Harriet Tubman, seated in a chair and holding a book in her hand.
Henry "Box" Brown Memorial (Richmond, Virginia)
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…