Description
- Abstract:
- The memorial consists of two granite circles nestled into the grassy landscape. The exterior surface of the outer ring is ribbed and textured with shallow depressions designed to catch light and shadow. From a certain angle, the eyes of Isabella Gibbons—an enslaved woman at the University of Virginia—appear on the stone surface. The interior wall of this outer ring bears the engraved names of known enslaved laborers at the University, along with placeholders for those whose names remain unknown.
- Notes:
- Memorial to Enslaved Laborers (The University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia), 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-NC-ND 4.0
- Restrictions on Use
- Collection is open for research.
Citation
Ater, Renée, and Otiitigbe, Eto,
"Memorial to Enslaved Laborers (The University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia)"
(2021).
Universities and Slavery.
Brown Digital Repository. Brown University Library.
https://repository.library.brown.edu/studio/item/bdr:dgx6xb5z/
Relations
Collection:
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Universities and Slavery
...The monuments in this collection examine the intertwined histories of American universities and slavery. In his book, Ebony and Ivy: Race, Slavery, and the Troubled History of America’s Universities (2013), Craig Steven Wilder examines how universities and colleges were established …