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Negatives for the first two images may have been exposed on the same day, while the third photo was taken at a later time. [5] The original images of Peter and Gordon, and at least two other known photos of contrabands photographed by McPherson & Oliver, were taken in a "makeshift studio with a hanging sheet for a backdrop and bare ground". [21]
Instead of wearing a liberty cap, the enslaved person in the revised monument is depicted bare-headed with tightly curled hair. The face was re-sculpted to look like Archer Alexander , a formerly enslaved man whose life story was popularized by a biography written by William Greenleaf Eliot .
English: Scars of a whipped enslaved man from Mississippi, photo taken April 2, 1863, Baton Rouge, Louisiana, USA. Original caption: "Overseer Artayou Carrier whipped me. I was two months in bed sore from the whipping. My master come after I was whipped; he discharged the overseer. The very words of poor Peter, taken as he sat for his picture."
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The Emancipation Memorial, also known as the Freedman's Memorial or the Emancipation Group was a monument in Park Square in Boston.Designed and sculpted by Thomas Ball and erected in 1879, its sister statue is located in Lincoln Park in the Capitol Hill neighborhood of Washington, D.C.
The Man’s ascension was marked by a ceremony presided over by Gov. Phil Noel, Adjutant Gen. Leonard Holland and me. Since July 1976, the Independent Man has stood like a sentinel over our seat ...
The 1857 plaster cast of the Statue of Freedom is in the center flanked by stairs which lead to the Capitol itself. Reed was honored for his role to create the capitol dome at the Emancipation Hall at the Capitol Visitor Center along with the plaster cast of the Statue of Freedom. Enslaved laborers who built the Capitol building were also ...