An Emancipation Statue Debuts In Virginia Two Weeks After Robert E. Lee Was Removed [View all]
Source: NPR
Two weeks after the 6o-foot-tall statue of Robert E. Lee was removed in Richmond, Va., the former Confederate capital city has become home a new statue, this one commemorating the abolition of slavery.
The Emancipation and Freedom Monument -- designed by Thomas Jay Warren, a sculptor based in Oregon -- was installed Wednesday on Brown's Island on the James River in downtown Richmond, about 2 miles from where the Lee statue once stood.
It consists of two 12-foot bronze statues of a man and a woman holding an infant who have been newly freed from slavery. The statue's pedestal includes the names, images and stories of 10 Virginians who contributed to the struggle for freedom before and after emancipation, including Dred Scott, whose lawsuit led to the Supreme Court decision that persons of African descent were not U.S. citizens; Nat Turner, who led a successful slave rebellion; and educator Lucy Simms.
"It really captured what we were trying to do in that the figures capture the emotion of emancipation, but the people on the base capture who else was involved of the process of fighting against slavery, leading to emancipation, and fighting for freedom and equality going forward," state Sen. Jennifer McClellan told NPR...
Read more: https://www.npr.org/2021/09/22/1039333919/new-emancipation-statue-richmond-virginia-monument
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