- Collection:
- Selections from the Collections of the Tubman African American Museum, 1800-2012
- Title:
- Untitled (man in shackles)
- Date of Original:
- 1850/1859
- Subject:
- African American painting--United States
African American men--United States
African Americans in art
Slaves--United States
Slavery--United States
Handcuffs--United States
African Americans--Social conditions - People:
- Painting, American
- Location:
- United States, 39.76, -98.5
- Medium:
- paintings (visual works)
canvas - Type:
- Still Image
- Format:
- image/jpeg
- Description:
- Oil painting by an anonymous artist.
Works such as this untitled painting encourage visitors to the Museum to engage in a dialogue about slavery, a conversation that may not occur outside of the Museum's walls. The artist depicts a black man in a pose that emphasizes the subject's dignity and humanity, while the shackling of his hands simultaneously strips him of both. The irony of this work effectively illustrates how the existence of chattel slavery thrived in an atmosphere of Christian morality.
Purchase of the Tubman African American Museum. - External Identifiers:
- Metadata URL:
- https://dlg.galileo.usg.edu/id:tbmn_sftm_tm04122011-95
- Digital Object URL:
- https://dlg.galileo.usg.edu/sftm/do:tm04122011-95
- Rights Holder:
- Please contact the Tubman African American Museum re: reproduction and usage. The information contained in this resource may not be re-purposed, reproduced, quoted without proper citation, or offered for sale in any form without the express written permission of the Tubman African American Museum.
- Bibliographic Citation (Cite As):
- Cite as: [title of item], Selections from the Collections of the Tubman African American Museum, 1800-2012, presented in the Digital Library of Georgia.
- Extent:
- 1 painting on canvas : oil ; 87 x 74 cm.
- Holding Institution:
- Tubman African-American Museum
- Rights:
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