Inequality in Bronze: Monumental Plantation Legacies

Stenton, a historic house museum, will engage its Northwest Philadelphia community in the commissioning of a new memorial to Dinah, an enslaved woman who lived at the site and who is credited with saving Stenton from burning by the British in 1777. Acknowledging the current national conversation about the role of public monuments, Inequality in Bronze addresses the absence of memorials to Africans and African Americans who lived as slaves, and the role that historic sites can play in recognizing their contributions to America’s history in public spaces.