Standing Soldiers, Kneeling Slaves: Race, War, and Monument in Nineteenth-Century America
By Kirk Savage.
Description
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 ov...
ISBN(s)
0691009473, 9780691009476
