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Photograph of the William Seward and Harriet Tubman Statue outside the Schenectady Public Library in Schenectady, New York. View of the plaza in front of the library .
Placed outside the Schenectady County Public Library, a life-size statue of William Seward and Harriet Tubman stand on Mohawk Valley ordovician dolostone inside a garden bed. Seward stands with a cane in his right hand and his left arm around the…

Photograph of I Am Queen Mary statue. The statue is an allegorical portrait of Mary Thomas, known as Queen Mary, an enslaved woman who worked on a sugar cane planation in the Danish West Indies (now Saint Croix, U.S. Virgin Islands). She led the largest labor revolt in Danish colonial history, the "Fireburn" Uprising in 1878.
The statue is an allegorical portrait of Mary Thomas, known as Queen Mary, an enslaved woman who worked on a sugar cane planation in the Danish West Indies (now Saint Croix, U.S. Virgin Islands). She led the largest labor revolt in Danish colonial…

Photograph of bronze statue of Denmark Vesey in Charleston, South Carolina. Four inscriptions decorate the plinth of the monument.
The work is dedicated to Denmark Vesey, a carpenter and self-educated Black man who planned one of the most extensive slave revolts in US history in Charleston, South Carolina in 1822. Vesey, elegantly dressed in a collared jacket, trousers, and an…

Photograph of the Edmonson Sisters Memorial in Alexandria, Virginia, shows the two sisters emerging from a large boulder.
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…

Photograph of the Amistad Memorial in New Haven Connecticut: three sides of the sculpture depict the life of Pieh. The first side shows him as a young man in Africa.
The Amistad Memorial centers around a large bronze triangular prism adorned with sculptural reliefs, depicting scenes from the life of Sengbe Pieh.In 1839 Pieh led a revolt of abducted Africans against their captors on the Spanish slave ship, the…

Photograph of the Harriet Tubman Memorial Plaque at the Cayuga County Court House in Auburn, New York. The 1913 bronze plaque includes a portrait of Tubman, based on an 1890s photograph. Rendered in raised relief and surrounded by a laurel motif.
The bronze plaque honoring Harriet Tubman has a dark patina and a rectangular body topped with a rounded arch. At the top, Tubman’s portrait—based on an 1890s photograph—is rendered in bas-relief and surrounded by a laurel motif. Her expression is…

Photograph of Frederick Douglass Monument on Hornbake Plaza at the University of Maryland, College Park.
Located on the large brick plaza outside Hornbake Library at the University of Maryalnd, the full-size sculpture of Frederick Douglass portrays him in the middle of a speech with his mouth open and his brown deeply furrowed. His right arm is…

Photograph of Harriet Tubman memorial at the Harriet Tubman Public School, Saint Catherines, Ontario. View of interior courtyard with Harriet Tubman statue placed on a six-pointed stars, and gold stars along the upper brick wall.
The bronze portrait sculpture of Harriet Tubman rests on a large rectangular plinth made of brick and stone. Tubman, wearing her signature headscarf, is depicted seated on a wooden chair, holding a closed book in her hands as she gazes into the…

Photograph of a bust portrait of Harriet Tubman, made from concrete and positioned on a black granite plinth at the British Methodist Episcopal Church of Canada-Salem Chapel, St. Catharines, Ontario.
The half-bust portrait of Harriet Tubman, made from concrete, rests on a rectangular plinth made of polished black marble bearing her name and an inscription. Tubman is depicted wearing her signature headscarf, with a wrap covering her shoulders. The…

Photograph of the reduced version of Swing Low: Harriet Tubman Memorial, located on the campus of Scripps College.
The sculptor Alison Saar created this smaller version of Harriet Tubman based on the full-scale Swing Low: Harriet Tubman Memorial in New York City. Tubman is shown in motion, striding forward with one hand clasping the strap of her shoulder bag.…
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