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1903 Integrity Protecting the Works of Man, pediment of the New York Stock Exchange Building, Manhattan, New York City; 1905 Abraham Coles (bust), Washington Park, Newark, New Jersey; 1910 Financier August Belmont, Newport, Rhode Island; 1916 General Phillip H. Sheridan Statue, East Capitol Park, Albany, New York (installed posthumously)
Harriet Tubman Memorial in Manhattan in New York City; Harriet Tubman Memorial in the South End neighborhood of Boston, Massachusetts; Hearth: Memorial to the Enslaved in Williamsburg, Virginia; El Hombre Redimido in Barrio Cuarto, Ponce, Puerto Rico; The Legacy Museum in Montgomery, Alabama; Memorial to Enslaved Laborers in Charlottesville ...
Printable version; In other projects ... (New York City) Hearth: Memorial to the Enslaved ... Statue of Frederick Douglass (Rochester, New York) U.
On a residential block in upstate New York, college students dig and sift backyard dirt as part of an archaeological project that could provide insights into the lives of African Americans buried ...
A postcard captioned "Lincoln Statue" depicts the Emancipation Memorial circa 1900.. Harriet Hosmer proposed a grander monument than that suggested by Thomas Ball. Her design, which was ultimately deemed too expensive, posed Lincoln atop a tall central pillar flanked by smaller pillars topped with black Civil War soldiers and other figures.
It is believed that there are more than 15,000 skeletal remains of colonial New York's free and enslaved blacks. It is the country's largest and earliest burial ground for African-Americans. [41] This discovery demonstrated the large-scale importance of slavery and African Americans to New York and national history and economy.
"In 1703, 42 percent of New York's households had slaves, much more than Philadelphia and Boston combined." [14] Most slaveholding households had only a few slaves, used primarily for domestic work. By the 1740s, 20 percent of the population of New York were slaves, [15] totaling about 2,500 people. [10]
[1] [2] Rev. Josiah Henson, a former enslaved man who fled slavery via the Underground Railroad with his wife Nancy and their children, was a cofounder of the Dawn Settlement in 1841. Dawn Settlement was designed to be a community for black refugees, where children and adults could receive an education and develop skills so that they could prosper.