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Brosseau Center for Learning: Slavery and Abolition

Gallery 318, The Jack and Lavon Brosseau Center for Learning, Spencer Museum of Art, University of Kansas, Lawrence, Kansas

This installation of art related to the Civil War supports the visit of a KU English class focused on the literature of slavery and abolition.

Works of art

Mathew B. Brady (1823–1896); John Chester Buttre (1821–1893), Abraham Lincoln

Uncle Tom and Eva figure

John Steuart Curry (1897–1946); Associated American Artists (active 1934–2000), John Brown

Kara Walker (born 1969); Landfall Press (active 1970–2004); Steve Campbell, The Beginning

Kara Walker (born 1969); Landfall Press (active 1970–2004); Steve Campbell, The Hunt

Kara Walker (born 1969); Landfall Press (active 1970–2004); Steve Campbell, The Chase

Kara Walker (born 1969); Landfall Press (active 1970–2004); Steve Campbell, The Plunge

Kara Walker (born 1969); Steve Campbell, The End

Tim O'Brien, Anti-Slavery Mass Meeting!

Josiah Wedgwood I (1730–1795); Josiah Wedgwood & Sons Ltd. (founded 1759); William Hackwood (1757–1836), antislavery medallion

Jacob Lawrence (1917–2000); Ives-Sillman, Inc. (1958–1978); Founders Society of the Detroit Institute of Arts (founded 1919); Sirocco Screenprinters (founded 1950), For forty years John Brown reflected on the hopeless and miserable conditions of the slaves.

Jacob Lawrence (1917–2000); Ives-Sillman, Inc. (1958–1978); Founders Society of the Detroit Institute of Arts (founded 1919); Sirocco Screenprinters (founded 1950), John Brown formed an organization among the colored people of the Adirondack woods to resist the capture of any fugitive slaves.

Jacob Lawrence (1917–2000); Ives-Sillman, Inc. (1958–1978); Founders Society of the Detroit Institute of Arts (founded 1919); Sirocco Screenprinters (founded 1950), Kansas was now the skirmish ground of the Civil War.

Jacob Lawrence (1917–2000); Ives-Sillman, Inc. (1958–1978); Founders Society of the Detroit Institute of Arts (founded 1919); Sirocco Screenprinters (founded 1950), John Brown’s victory at Black Jack drove those pro-slavery to new fury, and those who were anti-slavery to new efforts.

Jacob Lawrence (1917–2000); Ives-Sillman, Inc. (1958–1978); Founders Society of the Detroit Institute of Arts (founded 1919); Sirocco Screenprinters (founded 1950), John Brown remained a full winter in Canada, drilling negroes for his coming raid on Harper’s Ferry.

Jacob Lawrence (1917–2000); Ives-Sillman, Inc. (1958–1978); Founders Society of the Detroit Institute of Arts (founded 1919); Sirocco Screenprinters (founded 1950), After John Brown’s capture, he was put on trial for his life in Charles Town, Virginia (now West Virginia).

Jacob Lawrence (1917–2000); Ives-Sillman, Inc. (1958–1978); Founders Society of the Detroit Institute of Arts (founded 1919); Sirocco Screenprinters (founded 1950), John Brown was found “guilty of treason and murder in the first degree” and was hanged in Charles Town, Virginia, on December 2, 1859.