RESOURCES
LEARN MORE ABOUT THE EMANCIPATION MONUMENT
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April 14, 1876 Emancipation Monument Dedication Program
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Frederick Douglass Oration at Dedication Program
Poem read at the dedication written by Henrietta Cordelia Ray
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The Story of Archer Alexander by Rev. William Greenleaf Eliot
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A Freedwoman Charlotte Scott and the Scott and Rucker Families of Lynchburg by Marjorie Huiner
Abraham Lincoln and Nance: Trials of the First Slave Freed by Abraham Lincoln
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Original Maquette for Thomas Ball Emancipation Group
Recent Articles and Opinion Pieces on the Monument
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The Civil War and Natchez U.S. Colored Troops by Deborah Fountain
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What Frederick Douglass Had to Say About Monuments by Jonathan W. White and Scott Sandage
Let Abraham Lincoln Stand by Jonathan W. White
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A Monument to Our Shared Purpose by Allen C. Guelzo and James Hankins
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Of, By & For the Freedmen by Allen C. Guelzo and James Hankins
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Let Us Heed the Words of Frederick Douglass on the Emancipation Memorial by Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham
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