Pitt on a Pedestal: Sculpture and Slavery in Late-Eighteenth-Century Charleston

Pitt on a Pedestal: Sculpture and Slavery in Late-Eighteenth-Century Charleston

On July 5, 1770, South Carolina raised its first public sculpture. Representing the English statesman William Pitt the Elder in the mode of a classical orator, the marble statue stood on a pedestal at the intersection of Meeting and Broad Streets, in Charleston’s historic Civic Square. This essay re...

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Main Author: Wendy Bellion
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: European Association for American Studies 2019-12-01
Series:European Journal of American Studies
Subjects:
statue; sculpture; neoclassicism; slavery ; enslaved; race; Charleston; South Carolina; Civic Square; London; colonial; empire; place; location; site-specificity; built environment; William Pitt the Elder; Joseph Wilton; spectacle; spectator; Atlantic wor
Online Access:http://journals.openedition.org/ejas/15410

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