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https://archive.ph/wip/4iAPG :

2020-06-26 | Barriers are set up around Abraham Lincoln's Emancipation Memorial in Washington DC | Daily Mail Online

"The Emancipation Memorial, also known as the Emancipation Group and the Freedman's Memorial, was erected in Washington's Lincoln Park in 1876.", "The Emancipation Memorial in Washington DC depicts a freed slave kneeling at Abraham Lincoln's feet.", "The Emancipation statue was first erected on April 11, 1876, exactly eleven years to the day of Lincoln's assassination.", "Barriers have been erected around Abraham Lincoln's emancipation memorial in Washington DC after protesters, angry that the freed blacks who funded the sculpture had no say in the design, have pledged to tear it down.", "A copy of the Washington statue was also installed in Boston, home to the statue's white creator Thomas Ball, in 1879."


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