The striking Emancipation Memorial statue in Washington, D.C., shows Abraham Lincoln standing, while a man wearing only a loincloth is appearing to rise from a kneeling position. The face in the ...
In the Capitol Hill neighborhood of Washington, D.C., the Emancipation Memorial – also known as… Largest slave revolt in U.S. history lives on in reenactment In 1811, more than 200 enslaved ...