The striking Emancipation Memorial statue ... Frederick Douglass gave the keynote address, omitting reference to the monument’s imagery. Five days later, he critiqued the design in a letter ...

Frederick Douglass stood at the podium, trembling with nervousness. Before him sat abolitionists who had travelled to the Massachusetts island of Nantucket. Only 23 years old at the time, Douglass ...

The sculpture carries a false sense of empowerment, since emancipation and Black freedom are attributed to Lincoln, while a sense of inequality remains. In contrast, “Lifting the Veil” features ...