Monday’s Monument: Quaw’s Quest, Cave Hill, Barbados

Monday’s Monument: Quaw’s Quest, Cave Hill, Barbados

QUAW was an enslaved man living in Barbados in the early 19th century, captured in Guinea at 13 and emancipated by age 37. In 2013, a part of the University of The West Indies at Cave Hill was named Quaw’s Quest, with the unveiling of a monument depicting replicas of...
Monday’s Monument: Free At Last, Boston, Massachusetts

Monday’s Monument: Free At Last, Boston, Massachusetts

Located in Marsh Plaza on the campus of Boston University, Free at Last is an abstract sculpture made of rust-covered sheets of hammered Cor-Ten steel welded together to form a flock of fifty doves in flight. Each dove represents one of the fifty states. The sculpture...