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Freedmen's Memorial to Abraham Lincoln in Washington, DC, includes a bronze statue of Lincoln and kneeling, semi-nude Black man.
The sculptor Thomas Ball’s composition includes two figures, one fully clothed, the other semi-nude. Due to the dozens of photographs that survive from the 1860s, we recognize that the standing bearded man is Abraham Lincoln. Dressed in a shirt with…

A late-nineteenth century bronze statue, the figure o Douglass stands on a tall granite plinth.
Sculptor Stanley W. Edwards modeled Douglass with his shoulders back, feet planted squarely forward, and his arms outstretched with his palms open as if he were addressing an audience. Mounted on the statue's pedestal are four bronze plaques, three…
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