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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 explains
The striking Emancipation Memorial statue in Washington, D.C., shows Abraham Lincoln standing, while a man wearing only a loincloth is appearing to rise from a kneeling position. The face in the ...
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Statues with Abe kneeling before ‘comfort woman’ set off new storm
One statue is of a girl sitting on a bench representing women forced to provide sex to wartime Japanese soldiers. The other is of a man, representing Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, kneeling and bowing ...