Standing Soldiers, Kneeling Slaves: Race, War, and Monument in Nineteenth-Century America

by Kirk Savage

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0691009473
• ISBN13: 9780691009476
• Release Date: July 1999
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.3"