TY - JOUR AU1 - Gold, Susanna W. AB - At Philadelphia's 1876 Centennial Exhibition, sculptor Edmonia Lewis's The Death of Cleopatra responded to the ambivalent Centennial culture that celebrated one-hundred years of a nation built on founding principles of unity and liberty, but that was haunted by centuries of African slavery, the recent Civil War, and the rapidly failing efforts of Reconstruction. TI - The Death of Cleopatra / The Birth of Freedom: Edmonia Lewis at the New World's Fair JF - Biography DA - 2012-12-05 UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/university-of-hawai-i-press/the-death-of-cleopatra-the-birth-of-freedom-edmonia-lewis-at-the-new-ipgr5cn8Br SP - 318 EP - 341 VL - 35 IS - 2 DP - DeepDyve