Title Information
Title
South Carolina African-American History Monument (Columbia, South Carolina)
Name: Personal (Local)
Name Part
Dwight, Ed
Name Part: Date
1933-
Role
Role Term: Text (marcrelator)
sculptor
Name: Personal (Local)
Name Part
Ron Cogswell, Ron (Flickr)
Role
Role Term: Text (marcrelator)
Creator
Type of Resource (primo) (authorityURI="https://knowledge.exlibrisgroup.com/Primo/Product_Documentation/020Primo_VE/Primo_VE_(English)/100Loading_Records_from_External_Sources_into_Primo_VE/Configuring_Normalization_Rules_for_External_Resources_(Primo_VE)#Supported_Resource_Types_in_Primo_VE")
images
Genre (aat) (valueURI="http://vocab.getty.edu/page/aat/300046300", authorityURI="https://www.getty.edu/research/tools/vocabularies/aat/")
photographs
Abstract: general (displayLabel="Scope and Contents note")
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).
Note: image_accessibility_alt_text
Two semicircular gray granite walls, inlaid with twelve bronze panels illustrating 300 years of African American history, frame an obelisk and pedestal, looking towards the South Carolina Capitol.
Note: preferredcitation
South Carolina African-American History Monument (Columbia, South Carolina), Brown University Library
Origin Information
Date Created
March 29, 2001
Date Created: Start (encoding="w3cdtf", keyDate="yes")
2001-03-29
Place
Place Term: Text (naf) (authorityURI="http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names.html", valueURI="http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79126460")
Columbia (S.C.)
Access Condition: rights statement (href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0/")
CC BY-SA 2.0
Access Condition: restriction on access
Collection is open for research.
Identifier: Local (displayLabel="filename")
sc-african-am-hist-monument-2012
Note (displayLabel="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/)