What the statue of a kneeling enslaved man in the Emancipation Memorial of 1876 tells us about its history − an art historian explains. Virginia Raguin, College of the Holy Cross.

The image of a kneeling person in chains was first used in a seal commissioned by the Committee for the Abolition of the Slave Trade, established by English Quakers in 1787.

(THE CONVERSATION) The striking Emancipation Memorial statue in Washington, D.C., shows Abraham Lincoln standing, while a man wearing only a loincloth is appearing to rise from a kneeling position ...