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