A Ride for Liberty – The Fugitive Slaves
1862 painting by Eastman Johnson / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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A Ride for Liberty – The Fugitive Slaves (1862) is a painting by the American artist Eastman Johnson that depicts a family of African Americans fleeing enslavement in the Southern United States during the American Civil War.[1] It is based on an event that Johnson claimed to have witnessed near Manassas, Virginia, on March 2, 1862.[1]
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Artist | Eastman Johnson |
Year | 1862 (1862) |
Medium | Oil on paperboard |
Dimensions | 55 cm × 66 cm (21 in × 26 in) |
Location | Brooklyn Museum; Virginia Museum of Fine Arts |
Accession | 40.59a (Brooklyn Museum); 85.644 (Virginia Museum of Fine Arts) |
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Johnson painted three versions of the work: two are now in public collections; the location of the third is not known. According to the Brooklyn Museum, the work is considered "virtually unique in art of the period" in portraying the former slaves as "agents of their own freedom."[1]