Sujet

Block of Aquia Creek sandstone removed from the East Front of US Capitol, 1824-1826. Creator: Unknown.

Légende

Enslaved African Americans, leased out by their slave owners, mined sandstone from local quarries and built the United States Capitol, the White House, and the Smithsonian Castle. Congress, the institution that guarded the peoples’ freedom, held sessions in a building constructed by forced labor, and the legislators would have witnessed lines of shackled slaves marching by daily en route to the Deep South. The block was quarried near Aquia Creek, Virginia, by free and enslaved workers and used in the construction of the Capitol building in 1824.;Source: Nancy Bercaw, Curator, Slavery and Freedom

Crédit

Photo12/Heritage Images/Heritage Art

Notre référence

HRM21A73_260

Model release

NA

Property release

NA

Licence

Droits gérés

Format disponible

59,4Mo (3,5Mo) / 43,3cm x 34,3cm / 5119 x 4055 (300dpi)

Mots clés

building people black education stone country construction museum color sandstone location century African American African-American afro-american slavery Capitol Building United States of America Colour Smithsonian Institution 19th century Educational Institution nineteenth century heritage American America USA scientific institution slave labour object united states Unknown Sandstone cultural heritage Black History Heritage Art National Museum of African American History and Culture NMAAHC blocks