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Portrait of Charlotte Forten & Sculpture of the Woman
Project Proposal Information
I began concept development for this proposal by asking myself three questions. The first question was “Who was Charlotte Forten Grimké?.” Reading her letters, journal entries, poetry, essays and biography, I learned that on the most fundamental level, Charlotte was a deeply compassionate person who dedicated her life to helping others in the hope for a better future for everyone and that, in this way, she is a role model for us all. My next questions were: “How should Salem honor Charlotte’s legacy?” and “How might Charlotte want to be honored by a memorial?”. At length I realized that to be true to Charlotte’s legacy as well as to appropriately commemorate her, the memorial should be as much about the people she strove to help as it is about Charlotte herself and that this is how she should inspire us today and how Salem can celebrate her role in its proud history of abolition and civil rights.
To commemorate Charlotte in a manner consistent with her legacy, I propose to create two sculptures, one for either end of Charlotte Forten Park. The first is a large-scale portrait of Charlotte that focuses on the particular features and expression of the young woman who was the first African-
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Charlotte Forten Grimké
American anti-slavery activist, poet and educator (–)
Charlotte Louise Bridges Grimké (née Forten; August 17, – July 23, ) was an African-Americananti-slavery activist, poet, and educator. She grew up in a prominent abolitionist family in Philadelphia. She taught school for years, including during the Civil War, to freedmen in South Carolina. Later in life, she married Francis James Grimké, a Presbyterian minister who led a major church in Washington, DC, for decades. He was a nephew of the abolitionist Grimké sisters and was active in civil rights.
Her diaries written before the end of the Civil War have been published in numerous editions in the 20th century and are significant as a rare record of the life of a free black woman in the antebellum North.[1]
Early life and education
[edit]Forten, known as "Lottie," was born on August 17, , in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, to Mary Virginia Wood (–) and Robert Bridges Forten (–).[2]
Paternal family lineage
[edit]Her father, Robert Forten, and his brother-in-law, Robert Purvis, were abolitionists and members of the Philadelphia Vigilance Committee, ered assistance to people who escaped slavery. Her paternal grandfather, the wealthy sailmaker James Forten Sr., was an early a