Boston Removes Statue of Slave Kneeling Before Abraham Lincoln

After more than 140 years, Boston has finally removed the Emancipation Memorial statue standing in a park just off Boston Common.Having stood there since 1879, the statue is based on an identical one erected in Washington, D.C. three years prior, and depicts a freed, shirtless slave rising to his feet in front of Abraham Lincoln. The monument was created to celebrate the end of slavery in the United States, being based on a Black man named Archer Alexander, who escaped slavery and helped the Uni...