Standing soldiers, kneeling slaves : race, war, and monument in nineteenth-century America
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
Print Book, English, 1997
Princeton University Press, Princeton, N.J., 1997