By: Alyssa Wilson and Michael Henrich, Boston 25 News
Updated: December 29, 2020 - 10:07 AM
BOSTON — The “Emancipation Group†statue, put up in Boston’s Park Square in 1879, has been taken down after an online petition with more than 7,000 signatures called for its removal in June.
Peter Wilson
@PetesWire
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Dec 29, 2020
#BREAKING:
Crews appear to be starting the process of removing the controversial "Emancipation Group" statue in #Boston.
The statue depicts a Black man with broken shackles, rising from his knees beside a standing Abraham Lincoln.
Peter Wilson
@PetesWire
#BREAKING:
The "Emancipation Group" statue was slated to be removed "by the end of 2020" by the #Boston Art Commission
The decision "acknowledged the statue’s role in perpetuating harmful prejudices and obscuring the role of Black Americans in shaping the nation’s freedoms."
The statue, a replica of the original Emancipation Memorial in Washington D.C., was designed by Charlestown-native Thomas Ball. The base now sits empty but the inscription that reads “A race set free and the country at peace. Lincoln rests from his labors†remains.
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