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With These Hands: A Memorial to the Enslaved and Exploited by Hank Willis Thomas, Image 2.
With These Hands: A Memorial to the Enslaved and Exploited by Hank Willis Thomas, Image 1.
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With These Hands: A Memorial to the Enslaved and Exploited by Hank Willis Thomas, Image 6.
  • Hank Willis Thomas
  • With These Hands: A Memorial to the Enslaved and Exploited, 2025
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  • Inv: 2025.15.1
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The following members of the Davidson College community collectively made possible With These Hands: A Memorial to the Enslaved and Exploited. Their contributions support the college’s ongoing efforts to reconcile with, and learn from, our history.

Maria Tardugno Aldrich ’03 and Steve Aldrich ’02
Malú Alvarez ’02
Kemmer Anderson ’67 and Martha Johnson Anderson
Sam Bell ’69 and Kathy Bell
Andy and Elliot Berndt
Steve Black ’72 and Kelly Black
Bobby Bowers ’93 and Sandy Bowers
Blain B. Butner ’75 and Peggy T. Butner
Erwin Carter ’79 and Veronica Carter
Alice and Bennett Clark
Mary Jo Clark ’79 and William Brown ’70
Davidson College Presbyterian Church
Mrs. H. H. Dickenson
Bertis E. Downs IV ’78 and Katherine Downs
Ervin S. Duggan ’61 and Julia Prather Duggan
Ray English ’69
Bob Evans ’81 and Carmen Serna
Tere and Doug Ey Jr. ’76
Woody Faulk Jr. ’68 and Helen Alexander Faulk
Virgil Fludd ’80 and Carolyn Fludd
Lexi Beermann Fordham ’99
Anthony Foxx ’93 and Samara Ryder Foxx
Ann Sheaffer Gibert ’81 and James Gibert III ’79
Stephanie Glaser ’92 and Thomas Hazel ’92
Tim Goodell ’79 and Karen Jackson Goodell
Sam Gray ’14 and Sarah Watson Gray ’14
Ann Gray Harvey ’78 and Thomas W. Schultz
Paula and Dan Herd ’70
Doug Hicks ’90 and Catherine Bagwell
Kim and Jim Horton
Frances Houck ’87
John Jones Jr. ’78
Laura Kline ’87
Prem Manjooran ’92 and Susan Baik
Randall Mardus ’99
Alison Hall Mauzé ’84 and Mike Mauzé ’85
William McGuire ’10 and Blair Chestnut McGuire
Dan McLawhorn ’70 and Rob Hazelgrove
Anne Gammon Moffett
Harry Moffett Jr. ’31 and Margaret Moffett ’31
Ellen Morrissey ’90 and Joseph Barrett
Adriana Amal Nassar ’13
Lia Rose Newman
John R. Parker ’85
Anissa R. Patton ’91
James G. Pepper ’65
Cintra Pollack ’99
Annie Porges ’85 and Julio Ramirez
Frederick O. Porter ’99 and Mary Margaret Cochrane Porter ’98
Steven Porter ’79 and Marianne Armstrong Porter
Sara Tatum Pottenger ’79 and David Pottenger ’79
Jeff Prince and Michael Jolly
Cathy Ramos ’77 and Stephen Barnes ’77
M Roberts ’16
Caroline Roddey ’20
Tom Ross ’72 and Susan Ross
Vicki Atwell Sandiford ’88 and Darrell Sandiford
Lindley Moffett Small
Mary Olive Smith ’88 and Danny Weiss
Anne Stanback ’81 and Charlotte Kinlock
Janet M. Stovall ’85
Lauren Stutts ’05
Alex Theg ’10 and Taylor Whitsett Theg ’13
Ann Moffett Tully
Lea Ravenel Walker ’79
Sabrina Walton ’88
Olivia Ware ’78
Mary Chester Morgan Wasko ’79 and Jonathan Wasko
Jerrilyn Woodard-Entrekin ’90 and Andy Entrekin
Jim Yarbrough Jr. ’59 and Zena Strub Yarbrough
Margaret Zbinden
And those who wish to remain anonymous

Blog Post: With These Hands, Davidson Reconciles with a History of Exploitation and Enslavement

  • Subject Matter: Figurative
  • Current Location: Campus Grounds
  • Collections: Africana Studies, Campus Sculpture Collection, Recent Acquisitions 2024-2025, Recent Acquisitions 2025-2026

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