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The Boston replica was built in 1879 and installed in Park Square. Moses Kimball, a well-known public figure, public speaker, politician, and founder of the Boston Museum, donated The Emancipation Group to the city of Boston. Kimball commissioned Ball to duplicate a bronze recasting of the Freedmen's Memorial as a present from him to Boston.
The Charles Playhouse is a theater at 74 Warrenton Street Boston in the Boston Theater District. The venue comprises an approximately 500-seat mainstage, which hosts the long-running Blue Man Group , and a 200-seat second stage branded as the comedy club Lil Chuck.
In 1879 Kimball donated to Boston a copy of Thomas Ball's sculpture Emancipation Group. Sited in Park Square it depicts an emancipated slave rising at the feet of Abraham Lincoln (Ball was a former employee of Kimball's. [14]) In his will he left $5,000 for the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. [citation needed]
The city of Boston removed a statue of a freed slave kneeling at the feet of President Lincoln from one of its parks Tuesday, months after nationwide protests over racial injustice. The ...
Michael Murray (born March 31, 1932) is an American stage director, producer and educator. He is one of the early leaders of the Regional Theatre Movement. Murray was co-founder of the Charles Playhouse in Boston, MA. and served as its Artistic Director for eleven years (1957–1968). [1]
The Charles Sumner House is a historic house on Beacon Hill in Boston, Massachusetts.The brick townhouse, built c. 1806, is notable as the home for many years of Charles Sumner (1811–1874), an outspoken and aggressive political opponent of slavery, whose beating on the floor of the United States Senate in 1856 was a defining moment of the pre-American Civil War period.
Park Square is the home of the Boston Four Seasons Hotel, the Boston Park Plaza, and nearly a dozen restaurants. To the north across Boylston Street is the Boston Public Garden. To the east is the Washington Street Theatre District. The Bay Village neighborhood is to the south, and Back Bay is to the west. [1]
Emancipation is a bronze statue located in Harriet Tubman Park in South End, Boston, Massachusetts. [ 1 ] The statue was created in plaster in 1913 by artist Meta Vaux Warrick Fuller to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the Emancipation Proclamation , the order which abolished slavery in the United States.