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It comes at a time when a statue of Lincoln proclaiming the Emancipation Proclamation and helping a newly freed African slave rise to his feet is being removed from public view in Boston.

It comes at a time when a statue of Lincoln proclaiming the Emancipation Proclamation and helping a newly freed African slave rise to his feet is being removed from public view in Boston ...

The statue in Boston is a copy of the Emancipation Memorial, also known as the Emancipation Group and the Freedman’s Memorial, that was erected in Lincoln Park, in Washington, D.C., in 1876.