The Civil War and After:Freedom Sculpture

• What difficulties in representing black Americans did each artist’s chosen medium (stone, bronze) pose for their depiction?

• How does each present black figures? How do they compare with earlier images?

Edmonia Lewis, Forever Free (1867) Pohl p.218

Thomas Ball, Freedmen’s Memorial to Abraham Lincoln(Emancipation Monument) (1876) Pohl p.221

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