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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 ...
Battle for the cross
It is the soldier who bears the cross of our freedoms, but now one veterans memorial is having to defend its own cross. At the entrance to the Belle Plaine Veteran’s Memorial Park, a tall ...