Step on Board (Boston, Massachusetts)

Step on Board (Boston, Massachusetts)

Subject (Topic)
Abolitionist--United States
Antislavery movements--United States
Fugitive slaves--United States
Massachusetts--History
Northeastern United States
Public art
Public sculpture
Underground Railroad

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 holding a bible under her right arm. The figures are backed by a vertical slab of pink granite. On the reverse of statue is a diagram of the route Tubman took when accompanying passengers on the Underground Railroad (Maryland, Delaware, Philadelphia, New York City, Albany, Syracuse, Rochester, Canada). Includes quotations from Harriet Tubman, Frederick Douglass, and Sarah Bradford.

Cunningham, Fern, 1949-2020

Photographs by Renée Ater

June 20, 1999

CBA Landscape Architects, Boston, Massachusetts; United South End Settlements, Boston, Massachusetts; New England Foundation for the Arts, Boston, Massachusetts; The George B. Henderson Foundation and The Edgar Ingersoll Browne Fund, Boston, Massachusetts; and Boston Parks and Recreation

Boston Art Commission, Mayor’s Office of Arts and Culture, Boston City Hall, Room 802, Boston, Massachusetts, 02201, United States

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English

Visual Arts-Sculpture

Harriet Tubman Park, Columbus Avenue and Pembrook Street, Boston, Massachusetts, 02116, United States

Sculpture

120 x 84 in. (304.8 x 213.36 cm.)