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About Emancipation Monument
The Emancipation Memorial in Washington, DC, is a monument dedicated on April 14, 1876, with a keynote speech by Frederick Douglass. Sculptor Thomas Ball depicted Abraham Lincoln extending a hand over a kneeling African American man, modeled after Archer Alexander, with broken shackles. This wheelchair accessible site offers interpretive information.
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The Emancipation Memorial in Washington, DC, is a monument dedicated on April 14, 1876, with a keynote speech by Frederick Douglass. Sculptor Thomas Ball depicted Abraham Lincoln extending a hand over a kneeling African American man, modeled after Archer Alexander, with broken shackles. This wheelchair accessible site offers interpretive information.