Pieces of Freedom – The Emancipation Sculptures of Edmonia Lewis and Meta Warri…

Pieces of FreedomThe Emancipation Sculptures of Edmonia Lewis and Meta Warrick Fuller\nAuthor(s): Lee Ann Timreck, Alex Bostic\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: University Press of Mississippi, United States\nImprint: University Press of Mississippi\nISBN-13: 9781496845870, 978-1496845870\nSynopsis\nThe history of racism in America is also the history of ordinary Black Americans who accomplished extraordinary things in their pursuit of freedom. Faced with oppression throughout their journey, they built vibrant communities and lived purposeful lives. Pieces of Freedom: The Emancipation Sculptures of Edmonia Lewis and Meta Warwick Fuller brings that history to life by analyzing the first fifty years of Black freedom through the emancipation sculptures of two nineteenth-century African American sculptors, Mary Edmonia Lewis [tel] and Meta Warrick Fuller [tel].\n\nLewis's and Fullers sculpturesand their visual narrative of a peoples strength and humanity in the face of oppressionpresent a te.