A Boston statue depicting a formerly enslaved man kneeling beneath President Abraham Lincoln was removed Tuesday morning, according to the mayor’s office.. The “Emancipation Group” statue ...

The statue, a replica of one in Washington, D.C., is called the Emancipation Memorial or Emancipation Group, and was donated to the city in 1879 to celebrate Lincoln’s emancipation of the slaves.

When Boston artist Tory Bullock looks at the Emancipation Memorial in Boston's Park Square, he sees subservience instead of freedom. Designed and erected in 1876, the statue depicts Lincoln ...

Tory Bullock, a Boston actor and artist, created an online petition in June that called for the removal of “Emancipation Group.” It has since garnered more than 12,000 signatures. “I’ve ...

Workers remove the “Emancipation Group” statue from its pedestal in Park Square. (Jesse Costa/WBUR) It's not a sight you see every day. On Tuesday morning, a towering crane lifted an ...

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.

BOSTON (CBS) -- The Emancipation Group statue in Park Square will be removed. The Boston Art Commission voted unanimously Tuesday night to take out the controversial memorial. "As we continue our ...

Known as the Emancipation Group statue or the Freedman’s Memorial, the statue has been in place near Boston Common since 1879 and depicts Lincoln standing over a newly freed slave, Archer Alexander.

The Lincoln Emancipation Statue in Boston is a replica of the one that sits in Lincoln Park in Washington D.C.'s Capitol Hill neighborhood. (Photo by Andrew Lichtenstein/Corbis via Getty Images) ...

Boston’s mayor is in favor of taking down a local statue of President Abraham Lincoln standing before a freed black man, after a petition was launched for its removal, his office says.

Workers removed the Emancipation Memorial, also known as the Emancipation Group and the Freedman’s Memorial, early Tuesday from a park just off Boston Common where it had stood since 1879.