Standing soldiers, kneeling slaves
race, war, and monument in nineteenth-century America
by Kirk Savage
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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.
Here Kirk Savage shows how the greatest era of monument building in American history arose amidst struggles over race, gender, and collective memory. As men and women North and South fought to define the war's legacy in monumental art, they reshaped the cultural landscape of American nationalism.
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National characteristics, American, Race relations, Social aspects, American Public sculpture, American National characteristics, United States Civil War, 1861-1865, Slaves, Emancipation, Public sculpture, American, History, United states, history, civil war, 1861-1865, Slaves, emancipation, united states, Sculpture, united states, United states, race relations, Public art, American Civil War (1861-1865) fast (OCoLC)fst01351658 (uri) http://id.worldcat.org/fast/fst01351658, Public sculpture, MonumentsPlaces
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Standing soldiers, kneeling slaves: race, war, and monument in nineteenth-century America
1997, Princeton University Press
in English
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [215]-257) and index.
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