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The Death of Cleopatra / The Birth of Freedom: Edmonia Lewis at the New World's Fair
- Biography
- University of Hawai'i Press
- Volume 35, Number 2, Spring 2012
- pp. 318-341
- 10.1353/bio.2012.0014
- Article
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At Philadelphia's 1876 Centennial Exhibition, sculptor Edmonia Lewis's The Death of Cleopatra responded to the ambivalent Centennial culture that celebrated one-hundred years of a nation built on founding principles of unity and liberty, but that was haunted by centuries of African slavery, the recent Civil War, and the rapidly failing efforts of Reconstruction.