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What the statue of a kneeling enslaved man in the Emancipation Memorial of 1876 tells us about its history − an art historian explains
The striking Emancipation Memorial statue in Washington, D.C., shows Abraham Lincoln standing, while a man wearing only a loincloth is appearing to rise from a kneeling position. The face in the ...
A statue, a street sign, the name of a park. What do they say about who we are and what’s worth remembering?
In 2017, the planned removal of a Confederate statue from a park in Charlottesville, Va., led to a right-wing rally protesting that plan, and a counter-protest (resulting in one fatality and multiple ...
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Emancipation and The Statue of Liberty
We were all taught in school that the Statue of Liberty was a gift from France to the U.S. to celebrate American independence ...