‘Reckoning’ with slavery: toppled Francis Scott Key statue replaced by African figures

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One year after a statue of Francis Scott Key was toppled by racial injustice protesters in Golden Gate Park, an art exhibit opens next week with 350 slave sculptures gathered around the space once dedicated to the “The Star-Spangled Banner” creator — a slaveholder himself.

Sculptor Dana King works on a piece for an upcoming exhibit titled"Monumental Reckoning" while at her studio in Oakland, California, US June 10, 2021.

“We are standing for justice in that space, for everyone who has been oppressed,” said California sculptor Dana King, who created the artwork. Her 350 steel “ancestors” are among public sculptures she has created from California to Connecticut to honour Black lives. Sculptor Dana King stands among"ancestor" statues she created for an upcoming exhibit called"Monumental Reckoning" while at her studio in Oakland, California, US June 10, 2021.King said visitors will learn that, aside from being a slave owner, Key in his role as district attorney of Washington, D.C., successfully lobbied President Andrew Jackson to appoint his brother-in-law, Roger Taney, to the US Supreme Court.

 

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