South Carolina African-American History Monument (Columbia, South Carolina) Dwight, Ed 1933- sculptor Ron Cogswell, Ron (Flickr) Creator images photographs 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). 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. South Carolina African-American History Monument (Columbia, South Carolina), Brown University Library March 29, 2001 2001-03-29 Columbia (S.C.) CC BY-SA 2.0 Collection is open for research. sc-african-am-hist-monument-2012 Brown University Library, Center for Digital Scholarship, Box A, Brown University, Providence, RI, 02912, U.S.A., (http://library.brown.edu/)