Description
- Abstract:
- Two young women emerge from a large rocky outcrop, their hands clasped tightly as they stride forward. The over life-sized work depicts the abolitionists and former enslaved sisters, Mary and Emily Edmonson. The statue is located on the site of the former Joseph Bruin’s slave jail, where the sisters were held after a failed attempt to escape from Washington, DC in 1848 on the ship Pearl. On the back of the sculpture is an etching of the ship.
- Notes:
- Digital object made available by: Brown University Library, Center for Digital Scholarship, Brown University, Providence, RI, 02912, U.S.A., (http://library.brown.edu/)
Access Conditions
- Use and Reproduction
- CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
- Restrictions on Use
- Collection is open for research.
Citation
Ater, Renée,
"Edmonson Sisters Memorial (Alexandria, Virginia)"
Resistance.
Brown Digital Repository. Brown University Library.
https://repository.library.brown.edu/studio/item/bdr:eqvzsttf/
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Resistance
...The monuments and memorials in this section commemorate the enslaved and free men and women who resisted bondage and worked to end the institution of slavery. In her book, The Slave's Cause: A History of Abolition (2016), historian Manisha Sinha …