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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 juil. 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.
But it also commemorates an enslaved man, Archer Alexander, who found refuge in St. Louis during the Civil War and later served as the model for the freedman in the statue. The moving force behind the statue was William Greenleaf Eliot, a prominent Unitarian minister in St. Louis.
1 juil. 2020 · The crouching Black man is modeled on a real person: Archer Alexander, who lived from around 1813 to 1880. I am proud to be the inaugural holder of the Archer Alexander Distinguished Chair in...
6 juil. 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....
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.
13 juil. 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.
