Description
- Abstract:
- Two semicircular gray granite walls, inlaid with twelve bronze panels illustrating 300 years of African American history, frame an obelisk and pedestal. The twelve scenes of African American history include images of the Middle Passage, an African American family on an auction block, enslaved laborers working in a field, men and women celebrating the Emancipation Proclamation, the Jim Crow era, the Great Migration, and images of contemporary African Americans’ important contributions to engineering, law education, sports, politics, and space exploration. At the base of the monument’s obelisk are four rubbing stones from regions of Africa where people were captured - Senegal, Sierra Leone, the Republic of Congo, and Ghana. In front of the memorial, Dwight included a bronze cast of the famous print of the British slave ship Brookes (1787).
- Notes:
- South Carolina African-American History Monument (Columbia, South Carolina), Brown University Library
- Digital object made available by: Brown University Library, Center for Digital Scholarship, Box A, Brown University, Providence, RI, 02912, U.S.A., (http://library.brown.edu/)
Access Conditions
- Rights
- CC BY-SA 2.0
- Restrictions on Use
- Collection is open for research.
Citation
Ron Cogswell, Ron (Flickr),
"South Carolina African-American History Monument (Columbia, South Carolina)"
(2001).
African American History.
Brown Digital Repository. Brown University Library.
https://repository.library.brown.edu/studio/item/bdr:4kur8uwn/
Relations
Collection:
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African American History
...The monuments and memorials grouped under this theme acknowledge the important contributions of African Americans to American history. Slavery is anchored in the commemorative works as part of the larger story of Black existence in the United States. Some monuments, …