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Truth is carrying a Bible in her right hand, and steps forward on her right leg.
Truth's body is modeled in contrapposto, an Italian art term that describes a classical body postion with a subject's weight shifted to one side to suggest liveliness and motion. In this statue, Truth steps forward with her body weight on the left…

Photograph of the Entrance to the Corinth Contraband Camp in Corinth, Mississippi, with large metal gate.
Eight life-size bronze statues (in six groupings) commemorate the formerly enslaved persons who escaped from the South and sought safety and freedom behind Union lines at the Corinth Contraband Camp in Corinth, Mississippi. Established by Union…

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 Step on Board: Harriet Tubman Memorial in Boston, Massachusetts, a figurative monument with Tubman dressed in nineteenth-century dress and leading freedom seekers to the North.
A high relief sculpture with Harriet Tubman and six figures: three women, two men, and a baby. All figures are clothed in nineteenth-century dress. Wearing a dress, shawl, and head wrap, Tubman strides forward, gesturing with her left hand and…
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