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| Emancipation Memorial | |
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| Artist | Thomas Ball |
| Year | 1876 |
| Type | Bronze |
| Location | Lincoln Park (Washington D.C.), United States |
| Owner | National Park Service |
Emancipation Memorial | |
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| Location | Washington, D.C. |
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| Coordinates | 38°53′23.3″N 76°59′24.9″W / 38.889806°N 76.990250°W |
| Part of | Civil War Monuments in Washington, DC. |
| NRHP reference No. | 78000257[1] |
| Added to NRHP | September 20, 1978 [2] |
The Emancipation Memorial, also known as the Freedman's Memorial or the Emancipation Group is a monument in Lincoln Park in the Capitol Hill neighborhood of Washington, D.C. It was sometimes referred to as the "Lincoln Memorial" before the more prominent national memorial was dedicated in 1922.[3][4]
Designed and sculpted by Thomas Ball and erected in 1876, the monument depicts Abraham Lincoln holding a copy of his Emancipation Proclamation freeing an enslaved African American man modeled on Archer Alexander. The formerly enslaved man is depicted on one knee, about to stand up, with one fist clenched, shirtless, with broken shackles at the president's feet.[3]
The wages of formerly enslaved people funded the Emancipation Memorial statue. The statue initially faced west towards the United States Capitol until it was rotated east in 1974 to face the newly erected Mary McLeod Bethune Memorial.[5]
The statue is a contributing monument to the Civil War Monuments in Washington, D.C., on the National Register of Historic Places.
- ^ "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
- ^ "Civil War Monuments in Washington, DC". National Park Service. September 20, 1978. Archived from the original on February 20, 2013. Retrieved August 10, 2011.
- ^ a b Young, Rodney A. (December 6, 2003). "Great Emancipator, Supplicant Slave: The Freedman's Memorial to Abraham Lincoln". Slaves, Soldiers, and Stone: an Introduction to Slavery in American Memory. Washington, DC: American University. Archived from the original on 2012-02-29. Retrieved August 25, 2012.
- ^ National Park Service: Lincoln Park. Retrieved August 25, 2012
- ^ "Lincoln Park – Capitol Hill Parks (U.S. National Park Service)". www.nps.gov. Retrieved 2016-02-12.
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