2nd public exhibition of the Greek Slave: 26 August through 23 December 1847

          Though the exhibit itself was sponsored through the National Academy of Design (of which Powers was a member), "the gallery was located on the top floor of the New York Society Library building" (Wunder 219). Admission for viewing was 25¢, and, as in London, the statue was well recieved. Amongst various reviews of the exhibition, two prevailing sentiments emerged. The first was steeped in praise, as seen in an article by Horace Greeley: "In her pure unconscious naturalness, her inward chastity of soul and sweet, womanly dignity, she is more truly clad than a figure of lower character could be thought ten times robed. Indeed, no one can feel that anything is wanting, and the longer you gaze the deeper is your sense that so noble an ideal of beauty and of Woman could only thus be seen"  (qtd. Wunder 220).
          The second was less a critique of the work itself than its reception, as seen in the satirical journal Yankee Doodle: "If the object of Mr. Greeley's peculiar admiration had happened to be some poor negress from the rice fields of the South, we should no doubt have heard the great doings among the abolitionists, and read some fearful denunciations in the Tribune about the cruelty and the hard-heartedness of slave owners. But no sooner is beautiful Greek slave announced, than, Presto!—the sympathy of Mr. Greeley takes another direction, his admiration is excited, and we find him perfectly willing that she should be continued in bondage" (qtd. Wunder 220).