Abraham Lincoln Freeing A Slave At The Emancipation Memorial -- 2 by Cora Wandel

Cora Wandel

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Abraham Lincoln Freeing A Slave At The Emancipation Memorial -- 2

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Cora Wandel

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This statue of Abraham Lincoln freeing a slave while holding the Emancipation Proclamation in one hand is known as either the Emancipation Memorial or Freedom's Memorial. It is notable that the memorial was built almost entirely with money given by former slaves. Erected in 1876 and located in Lincoln Park, about ten blocks east of the United States Capitol, the statue was known for several decades as simply the "Lincoln Memorial," but that stopped around 1922 when the official Lincoln Memorial opened on the National Mall. The statue celebrates the Emancipation Proclamation, an executive order or "proclamation" to free enslaved people that was issued by President Abraham Lincoln on January 1, 1863, at the height of the Civil War. The absolute freedom of all slaves would later be enshrined in our Constitution after the war ended in 1865 and with the passage of the Thirteenth Amendment later that year.

The bronze statue was designed and made by sculptor Thomas Ball in 1875. It is located at East Capitol Street between 11th and 13th Streets, NE, in the Capitol Hill neighborhood of Washington, DC.

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