To Preserve Their Freedom
- Created by
- Lawrence, Jacob, American, 1917 - 2000
- Subject of
- Louverture, Toussaint, Haitian, 1743 - 1803
- Printed by
- Stovall, Lou, American, born 1937
- Date
- 1988
- Medium
- ink on paper
- Dimensions
- H x W: 22 x 32 1/16 in. (55.9 x 81.5 cm)
- Description
- This silkscreen print depicts five individuals shown running from right to left and carrying rifles. One man, wearing blue pants, turns back the way he came, raising his left hand with an object in it. A spray of red emanates from his chest. The five people are shown running through tall grasses. The image is surrounded by a wide white margin, with the chop mark of the print shop, Workshop Inc. in the lower left corner.
- Place printed
- Washington, District of Columbia, United States, North and Central America
- Place depicted
- Haiti, Caribbean, Latin America, North and Central America
- Portfolio/Series
- The Life of Toussaint L'Ouverture
- Classification
- Visual Arts
- Type
- screen prints
- Topic
- African diaspora
- Art
- Colonialism
- Decolonization
- Freedom
- French colonialism
- Men
- Military
- Resistance
- Slavery
- Violence
- Credit Line
- Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture
- Object number
- 2008.12.6
- Restrictions & Rights
- © 2020 The Jacob and Gwendolyn Knight Lawrence Foundation, Seattle / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York. Permission required for use.