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Four nude figures dance across the abstracted bow of a ship. Each figure strikes a distinct, rhythmic pose even as they are shackled together at the ankle by iron chains. The outer most figure appears to have broken free from this rhythmic…

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…

Located on the large brick plaza outside Hornbake Library at the University of Maryalnd, the full-size sculpture of Frederick Douglass portrays him in the middle of a speech with his mouth open and his brown deeply furrowed. His right arm is…