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Archer Alexander (1806 – December 8, 1880) was a formerly enslaved American man who served as the model for the "emancipated slave" in the Emancipation Memorial 1876 located in Lincoln Park in Washington, D.C.
13 de jul. de 2020 · Archer Alexander was a slave who escaped to freedom during the Civil War and became the model for the kneeling black man in the Emancipation Memorial in Washington, D.C. Learn about his life, his role in the war, and the controversy over his representation in the monument.
Archer Alexander (1828–1880) 1. min read. A-A+. read. facebook. twitter. envelope. print. On April 14, 1876, the eleventh anniversary of Abraham Lincoln’s assassination, a handsome bronze statue called the Freedmen’s Memorial Monument was unveiled in Washington, DC.
6 de jul. de 2020 · Archer Alexander was the real-life model for the freed slave in the controversial Emancipation Memorial, which racial justice protesters in D.C. have demanded be removed....
23 de sept. de 2021 · Archer Alexander was born enslaved in Virginia and became a Union informant in Missouri during the Civil War. He was emancipated in 1863 and served as the model for the Emancipation Monument in Washington, D.C.
13 de jul. de 2020 · Archer Alexander (1813 - 1879) escaped slavery and became a freedman in 1863. Of African descent, he was born in the early 1800s in Virginia, and as a young man was relocated to Missouri when the family claiming ownership over him migrated to the St. Charles area.
Archer Alexander became the national face, quite literally, for EMANCIPATION, as inscribed on the memorial that was installed in Lincoln Park, Washington, DC: the anonymous, self-emancipated hero who was chosen to accompany President Lincoln in lasting, heroic, and contested bronze.
