Pitt on a Pedestal: Sculpture and Slavery in Late-Eighteenth-Century Charleston
On July 5, 1770, South Carolina raised its first public sculpture.Representing the English statesman William Pitt the Elder in the mode of a classical orator, the marble statue stood on a pedestal at the intersection of Meeting and Broad Streets, in Charleston’s historic Civic Square.This essay Precut Fused Applique Shapes reconstructs the signif