The "Emancipation Memorial" was finally removed from Boston's Park Square on Tuesday six months after the Boston Art Commission voted unanimously for its removal following an outcry from religious groups. Boston's
Boston city workers on Tuesday removed a controversial statue of former President Abraham Lincoln standing before a kneeling freed slave which has stood downtown for more than 140 years.
BOSTON (WCVB) Nearly six months after the Boston Art Commission voted unanimously to take down a controversial statue, workers removed the “The Emancipation Group” sculpture Tuesday morning.
The statue, also known as the “Freedman’s Memorial,” depicts a freed slave kneeling at President Abraham Lincoln’s feet. It had stood in Park Square since 1879 and is a copy of another sculpture in Washington, D.C.
The sculpture of the slave is based on Archer Alexander, a Black man who assisted the Union Army, escaped slavery and was the last man recaptured under the Fugitive Slave Act.
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Updated: 12:42 PM EST Dec 29, 2020 WCVB Nearly six months after the Boston Art Commission voted unanimously to take down a controversial statue, workers removed the The Emancipation Group sculpture Tuesday morning.The statue, also known as the “Freedman’s Memorial,” depicts a freed slave kneeling at President Abraham Lincoln’s feet. It had stood in Park Square since 1879 and is a copy of another sculpture in Washington, D.C. The sculpture of the slave is based on Archer Alexander, a Black man who assisted the Union Army, escaped slavery and was the last man recaptured under the Fugitive Slave Act. The Boston Art Commission voted at the end of June to take the statue down after a group of Boston’s religious leaders led a protest against the statue on Juneteenth, the holiday which commemorates the emancipation of enslaved African Americans. It s demeaning, with the Black man on his knees, with Lincoln s hand over his head and what bothered me the
Controversial statue of Lincoln, crouching former slave in Boston removed
Statue depicts President Lincoln, crouching former slave Share Updated: 2:36 PM CST Dec 29, 2020
Controversial statue of Lincoln, crouching former slave in Boston removed
Statue depicts President Lincoln, crouching former slave Share Updated: 2:36 PM CST Dec 29, 2020
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Show Transcript IT WAS REMOVED THIS MORNING. THE CONTROVERSIAL EMANCIPATION MEMORIAL SCULPTURE LIFTED FROM THE BASE IT SAT ON FOR MORE THAN 140 YEARS. FOR ME, IT WAS A MOMENT I DIDN’T WANT TO MISS. JENNIFER RAUL FERNANDEZ IS ONE : OF SEVERAL PEOPLE WHO STOOD IN THE COLD AND WATCHED AS THE BRONZE STATUE WAS REMOVED FROM PARK SQUARE. I REMEMBER WALKING BY IT AND THINKING, OH MY GOD, I CAN’T BELIEVE THIS IS UP SOMEWHERE NO LESS IN BOSTON. WE FIRST BACK IN 2018 DETERMINED THIS WAS ONE OF THE PROBLEMATIC SCULPTURES IN OUR COLLECTION. JENNIFER: PRESIDENT ABRAHAM LINCOLN STANDS WITH HIS HAND