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What the statue of a kneeling enslaved man in the Emancipation Memorial of 1876 tells us about its history − an art historian explainsIgnoring the historical moment of emancipation, they often assumed that any white man standing next to a Black man kneeling was a demeaning image. Symbols that have served effectively for one time ...
The decree also left room for a plan of compensated emancipation. No Confederate states took the offer, and on January 1 Lincoln presented the Emancipation Proclamation. The proclamation declared ...
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