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Statue of the Freed Slave

    With the organizers’ placement of the hand of Bertholdi’s Statue of Liberty on the fairgrounds and the Statue of the Freed Slave in Memorial Hall, the Centennial Exposition publicly proclaimed the nation’s devotion to liberty. Yet this imprint from Frank Leslie’s historical register of the Centennial Exposition is the only surviving image that shows respect for African Americans.  

    1877
    Copyright
    Public Domain
    Attribution/Credit

    Frank H. Norton, ed., Frank Leslie’s Historical Register of the United States Centennial Exposition, 1876 (New York: Frank Leslie’s Publishing House, 1877).