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Emancipation memorial
July 1, 2020
Laurie Maffly-Kipp
The True Story of the Freed Slave Kneeling at Lincoln’s Feet
The Emancipation Memorial in Washington, D.C., has become a flashpoint in today’s reckoning with racist statues.
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