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The Underground Railroad,

Vermont and the Fugitive Slave

July 2020, Sam Kerson, the muralist, was informed that the Vermont Law School had decided
that they will 'paint over the murals'.
This, we are told, was an unanimous decision
by the board of directors of the VLS.

This page displays an ongoing a series of watercolors he has been making since the announcement.

The Muralist Imagines the Destruction of his Work

Alarmed

Collective consciousness

Capturing People in Africa

Selling Humans in the USA

Slave Labour

Insurrection

Painting out Frederic Douglass

Liberating Themselves

Sheltering the Fugitives

Montpelier, Vermont 1856

The Blind leading the Blind - after Bruegel the Elder

VLS Pronounces

The Clean-up Crew Arrives

Whitewashing

Fredd Lee and Kenny Hughes step up

Elmo Takes a Stand

Sans Titre

Mr Vance we could not have done it without you

Harriet Beacher Stowe

The professor and the accountant visiting the URR mural

Higher Education

The art professor and the accountant visit the Orozco mural at the Baker Library, Dartmouth - They enter the Virtual Reality room located inside the Orozco mural, for a tour of important world murals. The proffs' intent is to answer the Comptroller's question, "What are these URR murals worth?"

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