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The Emancipation Memorial, also known as the Freedman's Memorial or the Emancipation Group was a monument in Park Square in Boston.Designed and sculpted by Thomas Ball and erected in 1879, its sister statue is located in Lincoln Park in the Capitol Hill neighborhood of Washington, D.C.
The Boston Female Anti-Slavery Society (1833–1840) was an abolitionist, interracial organization in Boston, Massachusetts, in the mid-19th century."During its brief history ... it orchestrated three national women's conventions, organized a multistate petition campaign, sued southerners who brought slaves into Boston, and sponsored elaborate, profitable fundraisers."
The Massachusetts Female Emancipation Society was less religiously diverse than the Boston Female Anti-Slavery Society had been. Yet there continued to be diversity in terms of age, because members tended to join as family groups, meaning that individuals of different ages from the same family belonged to the MFES. [2]
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 ...
The Walker case had been opened by the attorney to consider whether a previous master's promise to free Walker gave him a right to freedom after that master had died. Walker's lawyers argued that the concept of slavery was contrary to the Bible and the new Massachusetts Constitution (1780).
Boston newspapers first pitched plans for a proto-Freedom Trail in the 1930s. But the idea didn’t catch on until after World War II. By that point, most of the city’s once-massive textile ...
Kimball made three journeys to Europe, in 1867, 1872 and 1877 to 1878. 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])
A Black teacher and musician who says members of a white nationalist hate group punched, kicked and beat him with metal shields during a march through Boston last year sued the organization on ...