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The history of racism in America is also the history of ordinary Black Americans who accomplished extraordinary things in their pursuit of freedom. Faced with oppression throughout their journey, they built vibrant communities and lived purposeful lives. Pieces of Freedom: The Emancipation Sculptures of Edmonia Lewis and Meta Warrick Fuller brings that history to life by analyzing the first fifty years of Black freedom through the emancipation sculptures of two nineteenth-century African American sculptors, Mary Edmonia Lewis (1844-1909) and Meta Warrick Fuller (1877-1968).

Lewis''s and Fuller''s sculptures--and their visual narrative of a people''s strength and humanity in the face of oppression--present a textured historical diorama of Black life during an era of transformative, yet sorrowful, events. In this book, Lee Ann Timreck integrates Lewis''s and Fuller''s visual narrative with oral narratives of the newly emancipated, all set within the historical context of Recon

Pieces of Freedom

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      Publisher University Press of Mississippi
      Published 1/15/2023 12:08:00 AM
      ISBN-13 9781496845870
      978-1496845870
      ISBN-10 1496845870
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      Decorative arts Ethnic studies / Ethnicity

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      The history of racism in America is also the history of ordinary Black Americans who accomplished extraordinary things in their pursuit of freedom. Faced with oppression throughout their journey, they built vibrant communities and lived purposeful lives. Pieces of Freedom: The Emancipation Sculptures of Edmonia Lewis and Meta Warrick Fuller brings that history to life by analyzing the first fifty years of Black freedom through the emancipation sculptures of two nineteenth-century African American sculptors, Mary Edmonia Lewis (1844-1909) and Meta Warrick Fuller (1877-1968).

      Lewis''s and Fuller''s sculptures--and their visual narrative of a people''s strength and humanity in the face of oppression--present a textured historical diorama of Black life during an era of transformative, yet sorrowful, events. In this book, Lee Ann Timreck integrates Lewis''s and Fuller''s visual narrative with oral narratives of the newly emancipated, all set within the historical context of Recon

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