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TitleShaw Memorial

Creator nameSaint-Gaudens, AugustusMcKim, Charles Follen

Creator nationality/cultureAmerican; American

Creator roleSculptor

Creation date1897

Object typeSculpture

MaterialsBronze

LocationBoston Common

https://www.nps.gov/boaf/learn/historyculture/shaw.htm

Accession numberUnknown

SubjectsPublic sculpture, American--19th centuryUnited States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--MonumentsSoldiers, Black

StatusPhoto: Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.

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Chapter 6: Common Soldiers

Kirk Savage

Description: Standing Soldiers, Kneeling Slaves: Race, War, and Monument in Nineteenth-Century...

Standing Soldiers, Kneeling Slaves: Race, War, and Monument in Nineteenth-Century America (New Edition)

SAMUEL WHITE’S modest monument to the “faithful slaves” of Fort Mill, South Carolina, with its little list of names meant to lift the former chattel out of historical oblivion, alerts us to one final, but decisive, shift in the history of nineteenth-century public monuments. This was the great enlargement of the commemorative sphere to...

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Kirk Savage

PublisherPrinceton University Press

Related print edition pages: pp.162-208

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Chapter subject tags:Slavery--HistorySculpture, American--19th centuryWar memorials--United StatesWard, John Quincy Adams, 1830-1910Soldiers' monumentsUnited States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865Soldiers, BlackHomer, Winslow, 1836-1910United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--African AmericansSaint-Gaudens, Augustus, 1848-1907. Robert Gould Shaw memorialNational monuments--United StatesRacism--United States--History--19th century

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