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Archer Alexander was the model for the enslaved person. In 1865, Eliot was working with the Western Sanitary Commission to build a statue of Lincoln. The funding for an Emancipation Memorial featuring a statue of Lincoln had begun with a $5 donation from a formerly enslaved person, Charlotte Scott, from Virginia. All initial funds raised were ...
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.
The statue itself depicts President Lincoln holding a copy of his Emancipation Proclamation while granting freedom to an African American slave modeled on Archer Alexander, waving his left hand over the freed slave's head in a symbolic gesture. Looking poised to stand with broken shackles around his ankles and wrists, the freed slave kneels ...
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Statue of Caesar Rodney: Marble: Bryant Baker: 1934 Crypt [18] Florida: Statue of John Gorrie: Marble: C. Adrian Pillars: 1914 National Statuary Hall [19] Statue of Mary McLeod Bethune: Marble: Nilda M. Comas: 2022 National Statuary Hall [20] Georgia: Statue of Crawford Long: Marble: J. Massey Rhind: 1926 Crypt [21] Statue of Alexander H ...
Beyond rebuilding the statue, the severed bronze cleats from the original statue found a new home last month at the Negro Leagues Baseball Museum in Kansas City, Missouri. It is a fitting location.
The Emancipation and Freedom Monument, comprises two 12-foot bronze statues depicting a man and a woman carrying an infant, newly freed from slavery. State capital unveils replacement after ...
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