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Updated: 12:42 PM EST Dec 29, 2020 WCVB Nearly six months after the Boston Art Commission voted unanimously to take down a controversial statue, workers removed the "The Emancipation Group" sculpture Tuesday morning.The statue, also known as the “Freedman’s Memorial,” depicts a freed slave kneeling at President Abraham Lincoln’s feet. It had stood in Park Square since 1879 and is a copy of another sculpture in Washington, D.C. The sculpture of the slave is based on Archer Alexander, a Black man who assisted the Union Army, escaped slavery and was the last man re...

Boston Removes Statue of Formerly Enslaved Man Kneeling Before Lincoln Officials voted unanimously to remove “Emancipation Group” in June, after a widespread petition and hours of debate. “Emancipation Group” in Boston depicts the formerly enslaved Archer Alexander kneeling before President Abraham Lincoln.Credit...Michael Dwyer/Associated Press Published Dec. 29, 2020Updated Feb. 28, 2021 A statue depicting a formerly enslaved man kneeling before President Abraham Lincoln was taken down from a Boston park on Tuesday after officials this summer voted unanimously for its removal. The b...

Fox News contributor Richard Fowler and former NRCC communications director Matt Gorman react. A statue of Abraham Lincoln with a freed slave appearing to kneel at his feet – optics that drew objections amid a national reckoning with racial injustice – has been removed from its perch in downtown Boston. Workers removed the Emancipation Memorial, also known as the Emancipation Group and the Freedman’s Memorial, early Tuesday from a park just off Boston Common, where it had stood since 1879. City officials had agreed in late June to take down the memorial after complaints and a bitter ...

Boston removes statue of slave kneeling before Abraham Lincoln By William J. Kole Many statues that once stood in honor of historical figures face scrutiny for their ties to racism. BOSTON (AP) - A statue of Abraham Lincoln with a freed slave appearing to kneel at his feet — optics that drew objections amid a national reckoning with racial injustice — has been removed from its perch in downtown Boston. Workers removed the Emancipation Memorial, also known as the Emancipation Group and the Freedman’s Memorial, early Tuesday from a park just off Boston Common where it had stood since 1879...

Joseph Prezioso/AFP via Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Joseph Prezioso/AFP via Getty Images A statue of Abraham Lincoln and a formerly enslaved man has been taken down in Park Square in Boston, Mass., after an intense debate and a petition to remove the work. Joseph Prezioso/AFP via Getty Images Workers dismantled a statue of Abraham Lincoln in Boston Tuesday, after the city agreed with protesters who say the memorial is demeaning and lacks proper context. The statue depicts Lincoln holding his hand over a kneeling Black man — a figure model...