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A postcard captioned "Lincoln Statue" depicts the Emancipation Memorial circa 1900.. Harriet Hosmer proposed a grander monument than that suggested by Thomas Ball. Her design, which was ultimately deemed too expensive, posed Lincoln atop a tall central pillar flanked by smaller pillars topped with black Civil War soldiers and other figures.
Unlike many similar statues, Lincoln and the freed slave do not make eye contact nor physically touch one another. Kneeling was a common abolitionist motif at the time, appearing on the masthead of the widely read anti-slavery newspaper The Liberator founded by Boston abolitionist William Lloyd Garrison . [ 4 ]
Emancipation Memorial statue placed in Washington, D.C. in 1876. Abraham Lincoln's position on slavery in the United States is one of the most discussed aspects of his life. . Lincoln frequently expressed his moral opposition to slavery in public and private.
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 ...
Protestors in Washington want a statue of Abraham Lincoln removed - not the famous one on the National Mall but a bronze memorial statue in nearby Lincoln Park called the Emancipation Memorial. It ...
The Lincoln Memorial at Louisville Waterfront Park features a double-life-size sculpture of a seated, hatless Lincoln surrounded by narrative bas relief sculptures by Edward Hamilton which depict the history of slavery as witnessed by Lincoln in the slave markets of Kentucky.
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Statue of Abraham Lincoln: Milwaukee, Wisconsin: 1934 Gaetano Cecere: Statue of Abraham Lincoln: New York City, New York. Union Square. 1870 Henry Kirke Brown: Statue of Abraham Lincoln: Portland, Oregon. South Park Blocks. 1928 George Fite Waters Statue of Abraham Lincoln: San Francisco, California. Civic Center. 1926 Haig Patigian: Statue of ...