The Freedman

John Quincy Adams Ward

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Bronze sculpture of a muscular, dark-skinned man with short hair and a beard, wearing a cloth wrapped around his waist. He is sitting on a tree stump with his right leg bent and left leg extended. His right arm rests on his knee and his left arm is bent at the elbow with hand resting on the tree stump. His left hand is manacled and his right wrist is cuffed to the tree stump. The sculpture sits on an oval base, with the artist's name engraved on the front. The background is a gradient from dark gray to light gray.