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    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

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    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

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    Western Sanitary Commission

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    Archer Alexander

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    Abraham Lincoln and Nance: Trials of the First Slave Freed by Abraham Lincoln

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    Emancipation Proclamation

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    Recent Articles and Opinion Pieces on the Monument

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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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