Identifier: statuesofabblinc (find matches)
Title: Statues of Abraham Lincoln
Year: 1982 1915 (1910s)
Authors: Lincoln Financial Foundation Collection
Subjects: Ball, Thomas, 1819-1911 Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 Presidents in art Presidents Large-scale sculpture Bronze sculpture, American Slaves
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Contributing Library: Lincoln Financial Foundation Collection
Digitizing Sponsor: State of Indiana through the Indiana State Library

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to toW^Umini^8?W bI*ck commun-ity to see whether^ -there!fV support fortonlshing a ttte-year-old bronze stotueoi AbrT offensive 80me Pe°p,e consider •hJS S^Ue e?tit,ed Mancipation, depicts MrStaSS h°,dlng an ouS^«ed hindover a freed slave, whose chains have been cutThe slave is shown half-kneeling and somecritics contend that the crouching f£ire•ppears to be shining Lincolns shoes
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Aswciatad Pre** Bostons Park Square may soon be free of Emancipation statue. Land of the free, home of the brave So one day President Mr.Abraham Lincoln freed all theslaves, see, and they made thispatriotic bronze statue, which atthis point has been sitting up inBostons Park Square since 1877and which is among our certif iablyimportant landmark social artifacts.Mr. Lincoln is seen at left, benignlyproclaiming the many civil libertiesand equal employmentopportunities that our black peopleenjoy today, and thats a slave fellathere who has flung himself to hisknees in just the posture of gratefulhumility us white people like to see when we emancipate somebody.Its apparently necessary to explainthese proceedings on account ofrecent surveys disclose that manypeople who pass by are under theimpression that Mr. AbrahamLincoln is getting his shoes shined,and theres been this great fumingmunicipal furor in Boston1 lately <over the true seemliness of whateverybody always thought wassupposed t

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