Sculpture at the ends of slavery

Introduction : "Within a few steps of the spot" : art in an age of racial capitalism

Grasping images : antislavery and the sculptural

"The mute language of the marble" : slavery and Hiram Powers' Greek slave

Sentiment, manufactured : John Bell and the abolitionist image under empire

Relief work : Edmonia Lewis and the poetics of plaster

Between liberty and emancipation : Francesco Pezzicar's The Abolition of slavery

Coda : "Sculptured dream of liberty".