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This sculpture shows a barefoot Black man navigating a Southern swamp as he attempts to escape his enslavers. He risks his own life by stopping to aid a White Union soldier who has been wounded behind Confederate lines.
More by John Rogers, born Salem, MA 1829-died New Canaan, CT 1904