158 Edmonia Lewis

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TitleForever Free

Creator nameLewis, Edmonia

Creator nationality/cultureAmerican

Creator roleSculptor

Creation date1867

Object typeSculpture

MaterialsMarble

DimensionsH: 104.8 cm

LocationGallery of Art, Howard University, Washington, D.C.

Accession number67.95

SubjectsAntislavery movementsFreedmen in artLiberty in artRacially mixed peopleWomen artists, BlackFauns (Roman mythology)Figure sculpture, AmericanAfrican American women artistsAfrican American sculpture

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Chapter 3: Imagining Emancipation

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)

ON JANUARY 1, 1863, the Emancipation Proclamation took effect. From a legal standpoint it was a peculiar document since it applied only to slaves in Confederate territory, and left slavery protected in Union-held areas. In effect it declared the enemy’s slaves free and kept...

Author

Kirk Savage

PublisherPrinceton University Press

Related print edition pages: pp.52-88

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Chapter subject tags:Slaves--Emancipation--United States--19th centurySculpture, American--19th centurySlavery--HistoryWard, John Quincy Adams, 1830-1910. FreedmanLewis, EdmoniaLincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865Abolitionists--United StatesSoldiers' monuments

Chapter 1. Olympia in Context: Manet, the Impressionists, and Black Paris

Denise Murrell

Posing Modernity: The Black Model from Manet and Matisse to Today

~In late 1862, Édouard Manet (1832–1883) noted in his studio carnet that a model he described as “Laure, très belle négresse” (“Laure, very beautiful black woman”) sat for a portrait in his rue...

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Denise Murrell

PublisherYale University Press

Related print edition pages: pp.7-83

https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00239.002

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Chapter subject tags:Women, Black, in artRacially mixed peopleImpressionism (Art)--FranceStereotypes (Social psychology) in artBaudelaire, Charles, 1821-1867Dumas, Alexandre, 1802-1870Artists' models, Black

3. Uncle Tom or the Freed Slave, 1852–1876

Hugh Honour

Description: The Image of the Black in Western Art, Volume IV: From the American Revolution to...

The Image of the Black in Western Art, Volume IV: From the American Revolution to World War I, Part 1: Slaves and Liberators

There are many and obvious similarities between European and American, especially British and North American, literary and visual images of blacks. Ever since the eighteenth century there had been a transatlantic interchange of writings about slavery ...

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Hugh Honour

PublisherHarvard University Press

Related print edition pages: pp.167-222

https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00143.007

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Chapter subject tags:United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--African AmericansUnited States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865SlaveryLiterature in artSlaves--Emancipation--United StatesAllegoriesFugitive slavesAfrican Americans--Social life and customsPropaganda in artUnited States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Art and the war

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