Description
- Abstract:
- The Path of Thorns and Roses is an eighteen-foot-high sculpture that spirals upwards and includes six allegorical figures: Oppression (a semi-nude male figure), Struggle (a semi-nude male figure at the base of the sculpture), Sacrifice (a woman who grasps the limp body of a child), Loss (a woman enfolded onto herself), and Compassion (a woman holding a baby and reaching towards Loss). Hope, a man with a bald head, stands on his toes within a large circle of thorns. The figure of Hope holds an unbloomed rose in his outstretched hands. Alongside the statue is a four-walled structure, “The Place of Remembrance,” the includes the names of individuals interred at the site as well as historical information on African Americans in Alexandria during the Civil War. Limestone blocks mark individual graves.
- Notes:
- The Path of Thorns and Roses and The Place of Remembrance: Contrabands and Freedmen Cemetery (Alexandria, 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,
"The Path of Thorns and Roses and The Place of Remembrance: Contrabands and Freedmen Cemetery (Alexandria, Virginia)"
(2014).
Burial Grounds.
Brown Digital Repository. Brown University Library.
https://repository.library.brown.edu/studio/item/bdr:qms4tujc/
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Burial Grounds
...The images here are just a fraction of the burial grounds dedicated to enslaved persons, "contrabands," and freed persons. Many of these cemeteries and memorial parks have suffered greatly over the years--some have been desecrated and destroyed while others have …