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  2. List of monuments to African Americans - Wikipedia

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    Statue of Mary McLeod Bethune: Mary McLeod Bethune: U.S. Capitol, Washington, D.C. Future To represent Florida, replacing statue of Confederate General Edmund Kirby Smith. Hearth: Memorial to the Enslaved: African Americans enslaved by the College of William & Mary College of William and Mary, Williamsburg, VA: May 2022 [9] Emancipation and ...

  3. Emancipation Memorial - Wikipedia

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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.

  4. File:Scourged back by McPherson & Oliver, 1863, retouched.jpg

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    English: Scars of a whipped enslaved man from Mississippi, photo taken April 2, 1863, Baton Rouge, Louisiana, USA. Original caption: "Overseer Artayou Carrier whipped me. I was two months in bed sore from the whipping. My master come after I was whipped; he discharged the overseer. The very words of poor Peter, taken as he sat for his picture."

  5. York (explorer) - Wikipedia

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    York (1770–1775 – after 1815) [1] was an enslaved man [2] who was the only African-American member of the Lewis and Clark Expedition of 1804–1806. A lifelong slave and personal servant of William Clark, York participated in the entire exploration and made significant contributions to its success.

  6. Denmark Vesey Monument - Wikipedia

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    He was a free black man, no one owned him … He risked his life and gave his life to make enslaved people free.” [9] The reverend of Emanuel AME, who spoke at the event, said, "My hope is that this monument will add to the full story of our southern heritage.” [4] In 2017, the monument was damaged in what may have been an act of vandalism ...

  7. Emancipation Memorial (Boston) - Wikipedia

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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.

  8. Wild and weird facts about RI's Independent Man statue atop ...

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    2018: The Independent Man (actually, a full-sized cast from the bronze statue taken when the man was down for repair in 1975.) stands in the parking lot outside of the food court of Rhode Island Mall.

  9. George Washington (Trumbull) - Wikipedia

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    General George Washington stands near his enslaved servant William Lee, overlooking the Hudson River in New York, with West Point and ships in the background. Trumbull, who once served as an aide-de-camp to Washington, painted the picture from memory while studying under Benjamin West in London.