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Free! Salem Women and Abolition
February 15, 2007
Abaigeal Duda art historian

Abaigeal Duda discusses interracial abolition efforts in Salem MA, and the work of artist Lucy Cleveland (1780-1866), which captures this movement. Several women from Salem promoted abolition by leading efforts to obtain freedom, rights, and material well being for African-Americans. Art historian Abaigeal Duda discusses how this interracial progress culminated in a movement that writer and artist Lucy Cleveland (1780-1866) concisely captured with the pronouncement Free!

Part of Peabody Essex Museum's permanent collection, Free!, Cleveland's textile sculpture depicts a smiling figure holding forth the proclamation of freedom. It was likely created in 1863 following Abraham Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation.

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