Joshua Glover Bust (, Ontario)
Emancipation
Bronze bust of Joshua Glover in Joshua Glover Park in the Etobicoke neighbourhood of Toronto, Ontario. In 1852, Glover escaped from where he had been enslaved in St Louis, Missouri. He was captured and imprisoned in Milwaukee, Wisconsin in 1854, but a mob protest led to his rescue, and from there he continued along the Underground Railroad to Canada. This rescue spurned the abolitionist movement in Wisconsin. Glover settled in the Etobicoke neighbourhood and married twice. The bust captures his abolitionist influence and importance to the Toronto community. The artist, Quentin VerCetty, forged the bust through the lens of Afrofuturism, depicting a well-dressed Glover, decorated with flowers and holding books, looking ahead while hurling away the chains of slavery with a cyborg arm.
Monument type:
Bust
Artist:
Quentin VerCetty
Dedication Date:
Address:
Ontario
Canada
Inscription:
We Remember Joshua Glover (c.1811-1888)
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Conception Date:
2018
Opening Date:
44378
Material:
Bronze
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Cost / Value:
c.$10,000 CAD
Erected by:
Etobicoke Historical Society & City of Toronto
Funded by:
City of Toronto
Run by:
Indigenous Land
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