The Fugitive's Story

American William Lloyd Garrison American Henry Ward Beecher American John Rogers American John Greenleaf Whittier

1860

Medium: paint on plaster
Genre: Figurine
Museum: National Museum of African American History and Culture

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Abolitionist movementAntislaveryMotherhoodSelf-liberationAnti-slavery movementsFugitive enslavedArtU.S. History, Civil War, 1861-1865

About

A cast and painted plaster statuette depicting the figure of an unidentified fugitive enslaved woman holding a baby and standing in front of three men. She wears a scarf over her head, and a shawl around her shoulders. There is a tied bundle on the floor next to her bare feet. The men are identified as John G. Whittier, H. W. Beecher and William Lloyd Garrison. Garrison is seated at a desk, facing the woman and baby, and appears in profile to the viewer. Whittier and Beecher are standing next to the desk, facing the viewer. The figures stand on an oval pedestal, the front of which is carved [THE FUGITIVE'S STORY / JOHN G. WHITTIER HW BEECHER Wm. LLOYD GARRISON]. On the top front of the pedestal is [JOHN ROGERS / NEW YORK].