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Description: Standing Soldiers, Kneeling Slaves: Race, War, and Monument in Nineteenth-Century...
BOOKStanding Soldiers, Kneeling Slaves: Race, War, and Monument in Nineteenth-Century America (New Edition)
Kirk Savage
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The United States began 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 the history of slavery and its violent end was told in public spaces—specifically in the sculptural monuments that came to dominate streets, parks, and town squares in nineteenth-century America. Looking at monuments built and unbuilt, Kirk Savage shows how the greatest era of monument building in American history took place amid struggles over race, gender, and collective memory. Standing Soldiers, Kneeling Slaves probes a host of fascinating questions and remains the only sustained investigation of post-Civil War monument building as a process of national and racial definition. Featuring a new preface by the author that reflects on recent events surrounding the meaning of these monuments, and new photography and illustrations throughout, this new and expanded edition reveals how monuments exposed the myth of a “united” people, and have only become more controversial with the passage of time.
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Kirk Savage
PublisherPrinceton University Press
Print publication date April 2018 (in print)
Print ISBN 9780691183152
EISBN 9780300279184
Copyright© 2018 by Princeton University Press
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List of illustrations

  • Types of Mankind
  • Apollo Belvedere
  • Sheet music cover for Songs of the Virginia Serenaders
  • Choosing of the Arrow
  • The Slave Auction
  • Antislavery Medallion
  • Am I Not a Man and a Brother
  • Illustrations of the American Anti- Slavery Almanac
  • Illustrations of the American Anti- Slavery Almanac
  • Monument to Grand Duke Ferdinand (Pietro Tacca, Monument of the Four Moors)
  • Practical Amalgamation
  • Greek Slave
  • Model for pediment for U.S. Capitol
  • View of South Carolina State House
  • Model for pediment for South Carolina State House
  • Model for pediment for South Carolina State House, detail of left wing
  • Model for pediment for South Carolina State House, detail of right wing
  • Model for pediment for South Carolina State House, detail of central section
  • Emmeline About to Be Sold to the Highest Bidder
  • Slavery as It Exists in America; Slavery as It Exists in England
  • The Slaves in the Cornfield
  • Harvesting the Rice and A Carolina Rice Planter
  • The Freedman
  • Freedom to the Slaves
  • Slavery's scars on the body
  • Libyan Sibyl
  • Forever Free
  • Lincoln Monument
  • Charles Avery Monument
  • Charles Avery Monument, detail of relief panel
  • Model for monument to Lincoln
  • Lincoln and the Emancipated Slave
  • Stereograph of plaster model for monument to Lincoln
  • Arrotino
  • Abraham Lincoln
  • Rhode Island Soldiers’ and Sailors’ Monument
  • Rhode Island Soldiers’ and Sailors’ Monument, model of emanicipation relief
  • Freedmen’s Memorial to Abraham Lincoln (Emancipation Monument)
  • Freedmen’s Memorial to Abraham Lincoln (Emancipation Monument), model
  • Design for the Freedmen's Monument to Abraham Lincoln
  • National Lincoln Monument, model
  • Freedmen’s Memorial to Abraham Lincoln, model
  • Emancipation Group
  • Lincoln monument (Standing Lincoln)
  • Lincoln monument (Standing Lincoln), detail
  • African Sibyl, design for portion of Lincoln Monument
  • General Lee on Traveler
  • Lee monument, model
  • Lee monument, model
  • Lee monument, model
  • Lee Monument
  • Monument Avenue
  • Hoisting of the Lee statue
  • Monument to faithful slaves
  • Monument to faithful slaves, detail of relief panel
  • Monument to faithful slaves, detail of relief panel
  • 7th Regiment Memorial
  • Confederate soldier monument
  • Defiance, Inviting a Shot before Petersburg
  • Dead Confederate soldier at Petersburg
  • Patience on a Monument
  • Monument to Union Soldiers and Sailors
  • Sandusky County Soldiers’ Monument
  • Design for National Emancipation Monument
  • Shaw Memorial
  • Design for Shaw Memorial
  • Plaster cast of sketch model for Shaw memorial
  • Robert Gould Shaw and the 54th Massachusetts Regiment Memorial
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Contents
Kirk Savage
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Standing Soldiers, Kneeling Slaves: Race, War, and Monument in Nineteenth-Century America (New Edition)
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Kirk Savage
PublisherPrinceton University Press
Copyright© 2018 by Princeton University Press
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Preface to the New Edition
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IN THE SPRING OF 1890, John Mitchell, the fiery twenty-six year old editor of the black newspaper The Richmond Planet, made sure that his paper covered the dedication of Richmond’s majestic monument to Robert E. Lee, notable as the first heroic equestrian statue of a Confederate erected anywhere in the United...
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Acknowledgments
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I OWE MY INTEREST in public monuments to a wonderful course taught by Nicholas Penny in London in the summer of 1979. Inspired by his synthetic approach, I have been thinking about them off and on ever since. The issues at the heart of this book emerged several years later in graduate school with the help of a superb group of advisors at the University of California at Berkeley. Dell Upton steered...
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Chapter 1: Introduction
Kirk Savage
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Standing Soldiers, Kneeling Slaves: Race, War, and Monument in Nineteenth-Century America (New Edition)
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.1 This book explores how that history of slavery and its...
Author
Kirk Savage
PublisherPrinceton University Press
Copyright© 2018 by Princeton University Press
Related print edition pages: pp.3-20
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Chapter subject tags:United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--African AmericansSlavery--HistoryPublic sculpture, American--19th centuryWar memorials--United StatesScientific racism--United States--History--19th centurySoldiers' monuments--Southern StatesSculpture, American--19th century

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Chapter 2: Exposing Slavery
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WHEN ARTISTS after the Civil War faced the great challenge of representing a society recently emancipated from slavery, they brought to the task various assumptions and images that had been deeply ingrained by the system of slavery and by the long campaign to abolish it. Most of the artists working on public monuments in the first years after the war had...
Author
Kirk Savage
PublisherPrinceton University Press
Copyright© 2018 by Princeton University Press
Related print edition pages: pp.21-51
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Chapter subject tags:Slavery--HistoryUnited States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865Abolitionists--United StatesPowers, Hiram, 1805-1873. Greek slaveBrown, Henry Kirke, 1814-1886Slaves--Emancipation--United States--19th centurySoldiers' monuments--Southern StatesSculpture, American--19th centuryRacism in art--United States--19th century

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Chapter 3: Imagining Emancipation
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ON JANUARY 1, 1863, the Emancipation Proclamation took effect. From a legal standpoint it was a peculiar document since it applied only to slaves in Confederate territory, and left slavery protected in Union-held areas. In effect it declared the enemy’s slaves free and kept...
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Kirk Savage
PublisherPrinceton University Press
Copyright© 2018 by Princeton University Press
Related print edition pages: pp.52-88
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Chapter subject tags:Slaves--Emancipation--United States--19th centurySculpture, American--19th centurySlavery--HistoryWard, John Quincy Adams, 1830-1910. FreedmanLewis, EdmoniaLincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865Abolitionists--United StatesSoldiers' monuments

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Chapter 4: Freedom’s Memorial
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ON THE NATIONAL STAGE, in the center of political power, a monument to “freedom” finally emerged. This was the Freedmen’s Memorial to Abraham Lincoln, a project begun immediately after Lincoln’s death and completed finally in 1876—neatly spanning the whole era of Reconstruction. Financed entirely by contributions from free...
Author
Kirk Savage
PublisherPrinceton University Press
Copyright© 2018 by Princeton University Press
Related print edition pages: pp.89-128
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Chapter subject tags:Sculpture, American--19th centuryLincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865Slaves--Emancipation--United States--19th centuryNational monuments--United StatesDouglass, Frederick, 1818-1895Hosmer, Harriet Goodhue, 1830-1908Soldiers, BlackMills, Clark, 1810-1883

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Chapter 5: Slavery’s Memorial
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THE FREEDMEN’S MEMORIAL became the nation’s monument to emancipation even though the design might have better commemorated slavery. If one changed the white hero from Lincoln to say, John C. Calhoun, and took away the chains and the whipping post, the work would have functioned rather well as an illustration of the old proslavery argument: a...
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Kirk Savage
PublisherPrinceton University Press
Copyright© 2018 by Princeton University Press
Related print edition pages: pp.129-161
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Chapter subject tags:Slaves--Emancipation--United States--19th centurySculpture, American--19th centurySouthern StatesLincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865Equestrian statues--United StatesLee, Robert E. (Robert Edward), 1807-1870Soldiers' monuments--Southern StatesSlavery--HistoryRacism--United States--History--19th century

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Chapter 6: Common Soldiers
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SAMUEL WHITE’S modest monument to the “faithful slaves” of Fort Mill, South Carolina, with its little list of names meant to lift the former chattel out of historical oblivion, alerts us to one final, but decisive, shift in the history of nineteenth-century public monuments. This was the great enlargement of the commemorative sphere to...
Author
Kirk Savage
PublisherPrinceton University Press
Copyright© 2018 by Princeton University Press
Related print edition pages: pp.162-208
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Chapter subject tags:Slavery--HistorySculpture, American--19th centuryWar memorials--United StatesWard, John Quincy Adams, 1830-1910Soldiers' monumentsUnited States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865Soldiers, BlackHomer, Winslow, 1836-1910United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--African AmericansSaint-Gaudens, Augustus, 1848-1907. Robert Gould Shaw memorialNational monuments--United StatesRacism--United States--History--19th century

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Chapter 7: Epilogue
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THIS BOOK has told the story of how a nation redefined itself in the most permanent form of self-reflection it had, the public monument. No single monument could accomplish this, although some did try. Their effect was cumulative. In the decades following the Civil War an unprecedented wave of monuments—to the great and the ordinary alike—spread...
Author
Kirk Savage
PublisherPrinceton University Press
Copyright© 2018 by Princeton University Press
Related print edition pages: pp.209-213
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Chapter subject tags:United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865Sculpture, American--19th centurySoldiers' monumentsSlavery--HistoryNational monuments--United StatesSaint-Gaudens, Augustus, 1848-1907. Robert Gould Shaw memorialRacism--United States--History--19th century

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Illustration Credits
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