100PercentFedUp.com By Allan Miller
Boston has removed a statue of Abraham Lincoln that celebrated the emancipation of slaves — simply because he was white.
The statue, called The Emancipation Memorial, featured a freed slave kneeling before Lincoln. It is a copy of the statue in Washington, DC, which Frederick Douglass spoke at the dedication of in 1876.
The bronze statue is inscribed with the text: “A race set free and the country at peace. Lincoln rests from his labors.”
The statue was reportedly inspired in part by Archer Alexander, a Black man who escaped slavery and went on to help the Union Army. He was the last man recaptured under the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850….
