IN THE PLEASANT LAND.

The article focuses on the Peabody Essex Museum’s exhibition *Edmonia Lewis: Said in Stone*, which highlights the work of Edmonia Lewis, the first internationally acclaimed sculptor of Afro-Caribbean and Mississauga Indigenous descent. The exhibition explores Lewis’s artistic contributions within abolitionist, feminist, and Indigenous visual cultures, featuring her known sculptures and contextual scholarship developed with Native collaborators. Born in 1844 in New York, Lewis overcame racial and gender discrimination to study art, eventually working in Boston and Rome, where she created notable works inspired by Native American themes and figures such as Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. The exhibition aims to present a holistic view of Lewis’s identity as both Black and Indigenous and will travel to other museums after its run in Salem, Massachusetts. [Extracted from the article]