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This photograph contains harmful imagery of a formerly enslaved man at the feet of President Abraham Lincoln.
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"The Emancipation Group" sculpture by Thomas Ball is seen with the figures of Abraham Lincoln and a formerly enslaved man based on Archer Alexander, the last man captured under the Fugitive Slave Act. Commercial businesses are seen behind the sculpture.
memorials
commercial buildings
squares (open spaces)
presidents
emancipation
slavery
photographs
Stebbins negative 6054
1 photographic print
PC047
Nathaniel L. Stebbins photographic collection
PC047.02.6020.06054
Boston (Suffolk county, Massachusetts)
Stebbins, N. L. (Nathaniel Livermore), 1847-1922 (Photographer)
Ball, Thomas, 1819-1911 (Sculptor)
photographs
Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865
Alexander, Archer
African Americans
Park Square (Boston, Mass.)
Emancipation Group (Sculpture)
Stereotypes (Social psychology)
Enslaved person
Item
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