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The memorial was sculpted by Ed Dwight and erected by the Texas African American History Memorial Foundation in 2016. It describes African American history from the 1500s to present, and includes depictions of Hendrick Arnold and Barbara Jordan , as well as Juneteenth (June 19, 1865), when African Americans were emancipated.
Statue of Barbara Jordan (Austin–Bergstrom International Airport) Statue of Christopher Columbus (San Antonio) Statue of Dan Moody; Statue of George H. Hermann; Statue of Robert McAlpin Williamson; Statue of Sam Houston (Ney) Statue of Stephen F. Austin; Statue of Toribio Losoya; Statue of Union; Strengthen the Arm of Liberty Monument (Austin ...
Statue of Mary McLeod Bethune: Mary McLeod Bethune: U.S. Capitol, Washington, D.C. Future To represent Florida, replacing statue of Confederate General Edmund Kirby Smith. Hearth: Memorial to the Enslaved: African Americans enslaved by the College of William & Mary College of William and Mary, Williamsburg, VA: May 2022 [9] Emancipation and ...
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Levi Jordan (1793–1873), a Georgia-born planter, traveled in 1848 to Brazoria County, Texas, bringing with him twelve enslaved Black people. [3] Previously, Jordan had owned adjoining plantations on the Louisiana-Arkansas border (Union County, Arkansas) with his son-in-law, James Campbell McNeill, [2] however he was not as successful as he wanted to be.
Slaveholders in those areas often moved their enslaved to Texas to avoid having them freed. According to the US Census, there were 182,566 enslaved people in Texas in 1860. By the 1870 Census, as a result of births and inter-state migration after the Civil War, there were 253,475 free people of color and no slaves.
He was born in c. 1820 into slavery in South Carolina and at about the age of 22, he was purchased by a sculptor, Clark Mills, in Charleston for $700 [1] or $1,200. [2] Seen by Mills to have an "evident talent for business", Reed became his apprentice.
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