Emancipation and Freedom Monument unveiled in Richmond

[Wishful]

A new monument has been installed in Richmond, VA. As noted in the Washington Post (article is behind a paywall), "Richmond unveiled a new Emancipation and Freedom Monument on Wednesday (9/22/2021) — commemorating a far different set of rebels than the Confederate statues that have been coming down for the past year." The Post also notes that this is "one of few nationwide commemorating enslaved people."

This is a great monument that I can't wait to go visit. I do wish it had more of a depiction of the agency that African American had in ending bondage, though.

 

[diane]

Welcome!

It's a project that has been worked on for some time now, very nice to see this side of history being seen. Here is a link about it and the commission:

Virginia's Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Commission

mlkcommission.dls.virginia.gov

 

[5fish]

Here Isa thought from Fredrick Douglas ...

What Frederick Douglass Had to Say About Monuments

In a newly discovered letter, the famed abolitionist wrote that ‘no one monument could be made to tell the whole truth'

www.smithsonianmag.com

 

[5fish]

There is an artist who repurposes Confederate statues or monuments...

Breathtaking, unsettling, healing: how US artist Kara Walker transformed a Confederate monument

The sweeping exhibition Monuments, which features 19 contemporary artists, opens in LA on 23 October

www.theguardian.com

Today, that same Jackson equestrian statue, chopped apart and reconstructed by American artist Kara Walker, is in Los Angeles, the centerpiece of a new art exhibit reckoning with the US’s white supremacist monuments.

For the new exhibit, Jackson and his horse have been cut into pieces – “butchered”, in the words of co-curator Hamza Walker, into shank and round and rump – and then put back together to form a disjointed monster. The beast-man rears into the air, spare limbs flailing. Each detail is disturbing: the rider’s legs dangle backwards, with broken toes. His faceless head is perched on the beast’s snout. A clenched fist has tumbled to the ground.

 

[LJMYERS]

Just my studying the works of ship builder Isaac Myers and his friend Frederick Douglass at the old B&O Building in Baltimore will tell you how this works. Frederick Douglass never missed a dedication of a Kodak Building in Rochester NY.

 

[5fish]

Frederick Douglass never missed a dedication of a Kodak Building in Rochester NY.

You like folklore and myth instead of history... You should be writing alternative history novels... this thread is about monuments...

Frederick Douglass did not dedicate a Kodak building in Rochester, but he did tour Kodak Park with George Eastman on Memorial Day in 1890, a year before he died. He was in Rochester that day to participate in the dedication of the Soldiers' Monument in Washington Square Park, along with President Benjamin Harrison and Civil War veterans. The event at Kodak Park was part of his visit to the city

 

[LJMYERS]

Well it's all recorded at the George Eastman Museum. Maybe you know these people? Names of interest to me. Carnegie Mellon Frick Morgan and Myers.

 

[5fish]

George Eastman Museum.

Douglas was in Rochester, NY, for this monument, not the Kodak Building... the building was built after his death... years later...

Soldiers' and Sailors' Monument (Rochester, New York) - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

 

[LJMYERS]

Well for sure Harry Lewis Gates of Harvard never heard of Issac Myers and his friend Frederick Douglass. I could go into it how all this connects to the Carnegie Mellon Frick Morgan Myers and Lind families of Rembrandt but I won't. Of course I have lots more pictures of the families of the North Star Newspaper and how they are related family wise. Rev Robert Jefferson Breckinridge DD is in the middle of this. He was know to hang out in Frederick MD, Baltimore, Pittsburgh and Rochester NY.

 

[5fish]

You got the right Rembrandt...

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www.mountvernon.org

George and Martha Washington: Portraits from the Presidential Years

George and Marths Washington

npg.si.edu

Washington at Princeton - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

 

[LJMYERS]

Yes Gilbert Stuart and yes Rembrandt Peale. Again Carnegie Mellon Frick Morgan Myers Lind and Rembrandt and his Lighting. I should add the Pittsburgh families of Westinghouse Oppenheimer and Einstein to this. They are up in the right hand corner by KDKA.

 

[5fish]

The first commercial radio station is widely considered to be KDKA in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, which began broadcasting on November 2, 1920, with the results of the Harding-Cox presidential election. Owned by the Westinghouse Electric and Manufacturing Company, it received the first commercial license for a broadcasting station

 

[LJMYERS]

Actually I have more Pittsburgh names. Lewis and Clark, Carnegie and Mellon, Frick and Morgan, Myers and Lind, Westinghouse and Oppenheimer, Stalin and Rosenburg, Eisenhower and Woods and last Heinz and Hitler all fighting over the self portrait of Rembrandt.

 

[5fish]

Actually I have more Pittsburgh names. Lewis and Clark, Carnegie and Mellon, Frick and Morgan, Myers and Lind, Westinghouse and Oppenheimer, Stalin and Rosenburg, Eisenhower and Woods and last Heinz and Hitler all fighting over the self portrait of Rembrandt.

Why do you post?

The conflict over a valuable artwork with such high-stakes figures would make for a compelling historical fiction or alternate history narrative

 

[LJMYERS]

All Lewis Strauss stuff. Just go to his grave site and look around. That is why I post. Everyone likes solid silver tea pots.

 

[LJMYERS]

See if you can follow this. Heinz-Madmen-Nuremberg with actor John Slattery. Sterling Cooper Agency at the Time Life Building advertised for Heinz Beans. Although in every show, the Heinz family need to get back to Pittsburgh to watch the Steelers Game.

 

[5fish]

John McCloskey

McCloskey , JOHN, fourth Bishop and second Archbishop of New York, and first American Cardinal, born in Brooklyn, N. Y., March 20, 1810; died in New York, Octob...

www.catholic.com

 

[LJMYERS]

He also went to Mount St Marys. His cousin was also named John McCloskey and ran the school at Emmitsburg. He was friend with Protestant Rev William Breckinridge DD. They played cards together. Rev William Breckinridge DD married a Rochester from Rochester NY. All of them attended the wedding of Anna Myers to William H Seward III. They say Secretary of State William H Seward never heard of Ward Hill Lamon or any kind of actors.

 

[5fish]

Frances Bacon though...

Idola" can refer to the plural of "idolum," a Latin term for a false belief or a phantom, as used by Francis Bacon in his philosophy to describe four types of "idols" or "idols of the mind". It can also refer to a feminine name meaning "vision" in Greek, or an Indonesian word for "idol". In gaming, it is the name of several titles, such as the mobile game Idola: Phantasy Star Saga.

 

[LJMYERS]

Kevin Bacon????????? I have his book on Connections given to me by a Nat Turner Descendant.