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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.

Enslaved persons --- National characteristics, American --- Public sculpture, American --- Emancipation --- History --- United States --- Social aspects. --- Race relations. --- Abolitionism. --- African Americans. --- Allegory. --- Americans. --- Anecdote. --- Apollo Belvedere. --- Archer Alexander. --- Augustus Saint-Gaudens. --- Black body. --- Black people. --- Black school. --- Booker T. Washington. --- Caricature. --- Cemetery. --- Citizenship. --- Civilization. --- Collective memory. --- Confederate States of America. --- Criticism. --- Debasement. --- Emancipation Proclamation. --- Emblem. --- Equestrian statue. --- Exclusion. --- Expatriate. --- Freedman. --- George Washington Williams. --- Grand Army of the Republic. --- Harper's Weekly. --- Harriet Beecher Stowe. --- Harriet Hosmer. --- Henry Highland Garnet. --- Hiram Powers. --- Iconography. --- Ideology. --- Illustration. --- Institution. --- John C. Calhoun. --- John Mercer Langston. --- John Quincy Adams Ward. --- Laborer. --- Liminality. --- Lincoln Memorial. --- Lincoln Monument (Dixon, Illinois). --- Lorado Taft. --- Lydia Maria Child. --- Manumission. --- Martin Luther King, Jr. --- Masculinity. --- Militarism. --- Military service. --- Militia. --- Monument Avenue. --- Monumental sculpture. --- Narrative. --- Nationality. --- Newspaper. --- Noel Ignatiev. --- Nudity. --- Old South. --- Oppression. --- Orlando Patterson. --- Patriarchy. --- Pediment. --- Physiognomy. --- Politician. --- Politics. --- Public space. --- Race (human categorization). --- Racial hierarchy. --- Racism. --- Radical Republican. --- Randolph Rogers. --- Relief. --- Rhetoric. --- Robert Gould Shaw. --- Sculpture. --- Slavery. --- Social death. --- Sojourner Truth. --- Statue. --- Suggestion. --- Superiority (short story). --- The Greek Slave. --- The New York Times. --- The Other Hand. --- The Various. --- Thomas Wentworth Higginson. --- Union Army. --- Vinnie Ream. --- War memorial. --- Warfare. --- White Southerners. --- White people. --- White supremacy. --- William Dean Howells. --- William Greenleaf Eliot. --- William Wetmore Story. --- Winthrop Jordan. --- Writing. --- 1800-1899