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Soldiers, Sailors, and Slavery, Oh My: The Soldiers' and Sailors' Monument and Chains of the American Past

The Soldiers’ and Sailors’ Monument was designed to be a site of both honor and grief. Celebrating all men of Rhode Island who served and died, this monument would become notable for the inclusion of Black history through memorializing fallen colored soldiers in bronze both by name and figurative statue. While contributing to the space created for Black figures in the monumentscape, there are possible complications with how these men were represented and consequently consumed, obstructing the progress of Black individuals and freedom.

allegorical figure, bronze, causality lists, civil war, granite, kennedy plaza, manhood, providence, randolph rogers, rhode island, soldier, united states colored troops, war dead, war memorial

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The Hiker Monument: White Manliness, US Imperialism, and Colonial Erasure

Kitson condensed the Spanish-American War, Philippine-American War, and China Relief Expedition by following the popular tradition of centering the white...