MS01.01.03.B02.F10.045

with the birth of human types,
gave risk to the slightly
peculiar form of expression in
American art in the nineteenth
century - that which was laden
with subjects which spoke at
racial injustice and man's inhumanity
to man - now called Afro-American
Art. A marble called Hagar, executed
in 1865, had significant meaning for
the race, echoing historically and
symbolically the stride toward freedom
by black people. More signific-
antly, her heroic work FOREVER
FREE symbolizes the gratitude she
envisioned when the Emancipation
Proclamation was read to a man
and his wife who embraced their
new status in life with
thanks to God through the power of
reverent prayer.
Though the chain is clearly broken
from the uplifted hand of the
freed slave in FOREVER FREE, he, above all, still
realizes the symbolic meaning of
the links that remain attached
to his wrist. The sympathy with which
Miss Lewis endowed these major works
that she attempted to make message.