The Emancipation Memorial (also known as the Freedman’s Memorial or the Emancipation Group) was created by sculptor Thomas Ball. The focus is on Abraham Lincoln as the Great Emancipator as it features the 16th President standing while a formerly enslaved freedman begins to rise. Located in Lincoln Park in Washington, DC, the statue was paid for entirely by the donations of former enslaved people. It was dedicated 11 years after Abraham Lincoln’s assassination on April 14, 1876, in an event that featured a speech from orator Frederick Douglass.
This photo and description of the Emancipation Memorial in Washington, DC are part of materials from the Civil War Monuments in Washington, DC Nomination for National Register for Historic Places.
