Boston Herald | Dec 30, 2020 | News | 11
Lincoln Emancipation Statue, Boston
The controversial Emancipation Group Lincoln statue no longer sits in public downtown, though the Boston Art Commission said it will end up in a new home.
A flatbed truck trundled out of Lincoln Park on Tuesday morning, bearing the statue of former President Abraham Lincoln standing with his hand out over a kneeling shackled slave after the Boston Art Commission voted in June to remove the statue.
Tory Bullock, the local artist who led the push, said he’s “very proud” of Boston for taking away the statue, which opponents for years have felt was belittling to Black people.
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.
The Emancipation Group statue was removed and towed away from Park Square, Boston courtesy Kobi 5TV
A statue of a slave kneeling before President Abraham Lincoln has been removed from Park Square in Boston, US, after more than 12,000 people signed a petition initiated by artist Tory Bullock calling for it to be replaced. The controversial
Emancipation Group sculpture, designed by Boston artist Thomas Ball, has been in place since 1879 and was designed to show the emancipation of slaves after the Civil War.
But it has come under scrutiny, along with other historic statues across the US, in the wake of the Black Lives Matter protests and the death of George Floyd in May. The sculpture is a bronze recasting of