Emancipation (sculpture) explained

Emancipation
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Artist:Meta Vaux Warrick Fuller
Type:bronze
Imperial Unit:ft
Metric Unit:m
City:Boston, Massachusetts
Coordinates:42.3435°N -71.0779°W

Emancipation is a bronze statue located in Harriet Tubman Park in South End, Boston, Massachusetts.[1]

The statue was created in plaster in 1913 by artist Meta Vaux Warrick Fuller to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the Emancipation Proclamation, the order which abolished slavery in the United States.[2] [3] In 1999 it was cast in bronze and placed in Harriet Tubman Park. In 2013, quotes from Fuller describing emancipation were engraved on the base.

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Emancipation: A Statue and A Trail. Boston Women's Heritage Trail. November 23, 2020. June 15, 2016. https://web.archive.org/web/20160615123820/http://bwht.org/emanicipation-a-statue-and-a-trail/. dead. .
  2. Web site: Harriet Tubman Park The Landscape Architect's Guide to Boston. www.asla.org. 2016-04-01.
  3. Web site: Emancipation » Public Art Boston. www.publicartboston.com. 2016-04-01.