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Summary: The Hidden Sites of Slavery and Freedom is a walking talking tour of New York City. Legacies: Contemporary Artists Reflect on Slavery provides a contemporary perspective on slavery and its symbols, while reminding us that slavery still afflicts people of all races today. The media is available in multiple formats: 1. Podcast in MP3 audio - walk and listen, 2. Vodcast (video podcast) with images - plug into the experience with rare images from the New-York Historical Society, 3. Cell phone - call 1-800-895-8161 and push an extension, and 4. Written script - catch all the details. Presented by The New-York Historical Society at www.nyhistory.org. Sponsored by Verizon at foundation.verizon.com. Supported by United States Department of Education at www.ed.gov. Created by Cutlass at www.ctlss.com.
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Pretending to be a free sailor, the young Frederick Douglass stepped off a Hudson River ferry at the Chambers Street Dock in 1838.
Lorenzo Pace’s (b. 1943) body of work includes sculpture, installation, and performance art. A postmodernist, Pace finds inspiration from the eclecticism of found objects, heirlooms, photographs, and natural materials like wood, textile, metal, and granite, which are integrated into his work.
Lorenzo Pace’s (b. 1943) body of work includes sculpture, installation, and performance art. A postmodernist, Pace finds inspiration from the eclecticism of found objects, heirlooms, photographs, and natural materials like wood, textile, metal, and granite, which are integrated into his work.
Algernon Miller’s (b. 1945) sketches and models for the Frederick Douglass Memorial Circle plaza depict a sixty-foot-long fountain pricked with stars of the constellations. Lit by fiber optics, the stars glow from beneath a sheet of falling water. The surrounding seating deploys different color granites to evoke quilts with Underground Railroad motifs.
Algernon Miller’s (b. 1945) sketches and models for the Frederick Douglass Memorial Circle plaza depict a sixty-foot-long fountain pricked with stars of the constellations. Lit by fiber optics, the stars glow from beneath a sheet of falling water. The surrounding seating deploys different color granites to evoke quilts with Underground Railroad motifs.
Ellen Driscoll’s (b. 1953) mixed-media installation, The Loophole of Retreat, is based on Harriet Jacobs’ famous 1861 narrative, Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl. Through moving objects projected as images into the interior of a camera obscura, this kinetic work imagines Jacobs’ prolonged experience of the claustrophobic attic in which she hid for seven years as a fugitive slave.
Ellen Driscoll’s (b. 1953) mixed-media installation, The Loophole of Retreat, is based on Harriet Jacobs’ famous 1861 narrative, Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl. Through moving objects projected as images into the interior of a camera obscura, this kinetic work imagines Jacobs’ prolonged experience of the claustrophobic attic in which she hid for seven years as a fugitive slave.
Patrick Reason was an engraver and ran his own print shop. He was a student at the African Free School in the 1820’s and made portraits of his classmates, who would become leaders of the free black community.
Patrick Reason was an engraver and ran his own print shop. He was a student at the African Free School in the 1820’s and made portraits of his classmates, who would become leaders of the free black community.
James McCune Smith was a star student at the African Free School in the 1820’s, and although he was banned from American medical schools he got his degree in Scotland. Returning to New York, he opened his own medical practice and pharmacy, and was an active abolitionist.
James McCune Smith was a star student at the African Free School in the 1820’s, and although he was banned from American medical schools he got his degree in Scotland. Returning to New York, he opened his own medical practice and pharmacy, and was an active abolitionist.
Henry Highland Garnet was an abolitionist and an orator who demanded the boycott of goods made by slave labor. He attended the African Free School in the 1820’s, with other young black reformers, and later became a prominent Presbyterian minister.
Henry Highland Garnet was an abolitionist and an orator who demanded the boycott of goods made by slave labor. He attended the African Free School in the 1820’s, with other young black reformers, and later became a prominent Presbyterian minister.
African Free School No. 2 was the first school for blacks in America. A number of notable leaders were taught at the African Free School during the 1820s including James McCune Smith, Patrick Reason and Henry Highland Garnet.
African Free School No. 2 was the first school for blacks in America. A number of notable leaders were taught at the African Free School during the 1820s including James McCune Smith, Patrick Reason and Henry Highland Garnet.
