Title Information
Title
Corinth Contraband Camp (Cornith, Mississippi)
Name: Personal (naf) (valueURI="http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/no2005045806", authorityURI="http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names.html")
Name Part
Ater, Renée
Name Part: Date
1965-
Role
Role Term: Text (marcrelator)
Creator
Name: Personal (Local)
Name Part
Lugar, Andrea
Name Part: Date
1952-
Role
Role Term: Text (marcrelator)
sculptor
Name: Personal (Local)
Name Part
Lugar, Larry
Name Part: Date
1953-
Role
Role Term: Text (marcrelator)
sculptor
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")
Eight life-size bronze statues (in six groupings) commemorate the formerly enslaved persons who escaped from the South and sought safety and freedom behind Union lines at the Corinth Contraband Camp in Corinth, Mississippi. Established by Union General Grenville M. Dodge in 1862 to shelter freedom-seekers, the Corinth Contraband Camp featured a church, a school, a hospital, and numerous homes as well as productive and profitable farms that were operated by freedmen and women. The bronze statues include: a woman with her hands on her hips, “the greeter”; a laundress ironing clothes; a farmer tending to his crops with a hoe; a female teacher with a young female student who read together from an open Bible; a man and boy gathering books; and a member of the United States Colored Troops who pulls Hardee's Rifle and Light Infantry Tactics from his haversack . Included at the site: two bronze plaques with inscriptions attached to a concrete wall near the greeter; two bronze low reliefs on a concrete wall opposite the greeter; and an informational panel explaining farming at the site in front of the farmer.
Note: image_accessibility_alt_text
Entrance to the Corinth Contraband Camp in Corinth, Mississippi, with large metal gate.
Note: preferredcitation
Corinth Contraband Camp (Cornith, Mississippi), Brown University Library
Origin Information
Date Created
May 23, 2009
Date Created: Start (encoding="w3cdtf", keyDate="yes")
2009-05-23
Place
Place Term: Text (naf) (authorityURI="http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names.html", valueURI="http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n81018820")
Cornith (Miss.)
Access Condition: rights statement (href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/")
CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
Access Condition: restriction on access
Collection is open for research.
Identifier: Local (displayLabel="filename")
corinth-contraband-camp-2019
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/)