Description
- Abstract:
- The Field of Angels is dedicated to the 2,200 enslaved children who died in St. John the Baptist Parish (Louisiana) from 1823-1863, documented in the Sacramental Records of the Archdiocese of New Orleans. It includes a bronze statue of Black angel carrying a child to heaven and a low black granite, circular wall with the children's names engraved on it.
- Notes:
- The Whitney Plantation Museum (Edgard, Louisiana), 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,
"The Whitney Plantation Museum (Edgard, Louisiana)"
(2014).
Sites of Slavery.
Brown Digital Repository. Brown University Library.
https://repository.library.brown.edu/studio/item/bdr:fe8xjepx/
Relations
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Sites of Slavery
...Sites of slavery are designated as historic places (including plantations, wharves, archaeological sites) where "slavery happened" and that commemorate enslaved Africans, their lives, and their labor. We include sites that act as memorials and often have sculpture, public art, or …