A creative imagining of the Emancipation Group statue
Get it out of storage, use it to tell Boston's story
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IN THE SUMMER of 2021, I wrote an opinion piece for CommonWealth with suggestions on what to do with the city’s Emancipation Group statue, the one showing Abraham Lincoln with arm outstretched over a kneeling enslaved Black American that had been removed from Boston’s Park Square the year before. It was the aftermath of the(...)