Emancipation statue, Washington, D.C.

ID: 2725 ~ Source: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA ~ Creator: Detroit Publishing Co., publisher ~ Date: [between 1901 and 1906]

This file appears in: Emancipation Monument: This memorial to Abraham Lincoln, DC's first, was funded entirely by formerly enslaved men and women.

This file appears in: Emancipation Monument: This memorial to Abraham Lincoln, DC's first, was funded entirely by formerly enslaved men and women.

Emancipation Monument: This memorial to Abraham Lincoln, DC's first, was funded entirely by formerly enslaved men and women.

By The DC Historic Sites team

Financed entirely by contributions from formerly enslaved men and women, the Emancipation Monument was the city’s principal memorial to Abraham Lincoln until 1922. The inscription records that…