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Standing soldiers, kneeling slaves : race, war, and monument in nineteenth-century America / Kirk Savage.
Historical Society of Pennsylvania - Closed Stacks E 468.9 S28 2018
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Savage, Kirk, 1958- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Enslaved persons--Emancipation--United States.
- Enslaved persons.
- Public sculpture, American--19th century.
- Public sculpture, American.
- National characteristics, American--History--19th century.
- National characteristics, American.
- United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Social aspects.
- United States.
- United States--Race relations.
- Race relations.
- Enslaved persons--Emancipation.
- Social aspects.
- Genre:
- History.
- Physical Description:
- xvi, 274 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Edition:
- New edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Princeton : Princeton University Press, [2018]
- Summary:
- The United States of America originated as a slave society, holding millions of Africans and their descendants in bondage, and remained so until a civil war took the lives of a half million soldiers, some once slaves themselves. Standing Soldiers, Kneeling Slaves explores how that history of slavery and its violent end was told in public space - specifically in the sculptural monuments that increasingly came to dominate streets, parks, and town squares in nineteenth-century America.
- Contents:
- Exposing slavery
- Imagining emancipation
- Freedom's memorial
- Slavery's memorial
- Common soldiers.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 215-257) and index.
- Hope Franklin Publication Prize
- Local Notes:
- The Pennsylvania Abolition Society Complementary Collection.
- Other Format:
- Online version: Savage, Kirk, 1958- Standing soldiers, kneeling slaves.
- ISBN:
- 0691183155
- 9780691183152
- OCLC:
- 1028189324
- Online:
- Book review (H-Net)
- Publisher description
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