Emancipation Memorial (Washington, D.C.)

USA / District of Columbia / Washington / Washington, D.C.
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Historic memorial of Abraham Lincoln. The bronze statue was designed by Thomas Ball and installed in 1876. An African American woman named Charlotte Scott of Virginia was the one who started to raise money for the Lincoln statue. Using her first $5 earned in freedom, Scott kicked-off a fund raising campaign among freed blacks as a way of paying homage to the President who had issued the Emancipation Proclamation that liberated the slaves in the Confederate States. The campaign for the Freedmen's Memorial Monument to Abraham Lincoln, as it was to be known, was not the only effort of the time to build a monument to Lincoln; however, as the only one soliciting contributions exclusively from those who had most directly benefited from Lincoln's act of emancipation it had a special appeal.

The funds were collected solely from freed slaves (primarily from African American Union veterans), however, the organization controlling the effort and keeping the funds was a white-run, war-relief agency based in St.Louis, the Western Sanitary Commission. The monument was designed by Thomas Ball, cast in Munich in 1875 and shipped to Washington in 1876. Congress accepted the Emancipation Group, as it came to be known, from the "colored citizens of the United States" for placement in Lincoln Square and appropriated $3,000 for a pedestal upon which it would rest. The memorial is one of 18 sites collectively listed on the National Register of Historic Places as "Civil War Monuments in Washington, D.C."

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Wikipedia article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emancipation_Memorial
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Coordinates:   38°53'23"N   76°59'24"W

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