Emancipation Monument, Lincoln Park, Washington, D.C. - Thomas Ball, sculptor

ID: 2727 ~ Source: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA ~ Creator: Jarvis, J. F. (John Fillis), 1849-1931, publisher ~ Date: 1870
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Emancipation Monument, Lincoln Park, Washington, D.C. - Thomas Ball, sculptor
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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 freedwoman Charlotte Scott began the campaign to erect…