Posted on 02/26/2021 5:55:34 PM PST by nickcarraway
Archer Alexander’s fame came largely after his death. Depicted in bronze kneeling before President Abraham Lincoln, his story also received renewed attention recently amid recent calls for monuments connected to slavery and colonialism to be pulled down. In the wake of global anti-racism protests sparked by the killing of George Floyd in the U.S., such controversial monuments became the target of Black Lives Matter protesters across the world, including the UK and Belgium.
In the U.S., statues of Confederate leaders and the explorer Christopher Columbus were toppled. In Washington, D.C., protesters made attempts to tear down the controversial Emancipation Memorial, a statue of a freed slave kneeling before President Abraham Lincoln. The bronze memorial in Lincoln Park was erected in 1876 to commemorate the Emancipation Proclamation, the executive order signed by Lincoln that ended slavery in the Confederacy. It was commissioned and paid for by Black people after the Civil War, but now protesters say the position of the formerly enslaved Black man at the feet of Lincoln is offensive and should be removed.
For many, the statue does not in any way show how enslaved African Americans pushed for their own emancipation. As a matter of fact, scores of enslaved African Americans fought for their own freedom. Such was the case of Alexander, the real-life model for the newly freed slave in the controversial Emancipation Memorial, also called the Freedman’s Memorial.
Too bad the Emancipation Proclamation freed no one.
The anarchists of Antifa and Burning Looting Mobs do not care about history, they just want to erase all of it, like every communist regime in history.
That's just preposterous. I can barely find information about my own ggg-grandfathers in England and Germany and those were advanced civilizations with extensive written civil and church records. In Africa, there was no written language and nothing but oral traditions and stories passed down. This is just a silly feel-good story to MAYBE keep the lunatics from destroying the statue.
This would have been in the U.S., not Africa.
Interesting point! Knew my GGGM escaped from the Trail of Tears. Knew of the family who took her in..but haven’t found anything about parents or siblings.
We belong to the local tribe but have run into a brick wall.
Ali’s real name was Cassius Marcellus Clay. He was named after a Kentucky abolitionist/Republican politician.
It may have been M. Ali’s ancester. I can not prove yes or no concerning the validity. And neither can you. There may be actual proof. An investigation could prove the statement to be truthful.
Edited: his father was named for the politician. Ali is a junior.
“This would have been in the U.S., not Africa.”
Fair enough, but there weren’t a lot of written records and documents kept by slaves in the US. Bills of sale, maybe, but not much more.
DNA testing in 2018 has proven the claim to be true.
No, I did not know that. And I still don't know that.
I 'know' [read: feel] that it is Thomas Tidwwell's Great-Great-Great-Grandfather on his Mothers side.
Thanks for posting!
You are welcome.
There were fairly extensive census counts since the House of Representatives were based on population including slaves. Professor Henry Gates was on PBS had a show called “Finding your roots”. It was amazing how much information he obtained on people whose ancestors were slaves etc.
“I can barely find information about my own ggg-grandfathers in England and Germany and those were advanced civilizations with extensive written civil and church records.”
I can trace back my Italian ancestors who settled in Brooklyn as early as 1840, and even went to the archives in Naples to trace our lineage. Most of them had mafia ties LOL
That’s just preposterous. I can barely find information about my own ggg-grandfathers in England and Germany and those were advanced civilizations with extensive written civil and church records. In Africa, there was no written language and nothing but oral traditions and stories passed down.
And in Africa most of their time was spent scavaging for food and catching flies to eat off each other’s faces and other fly covered areas.
Remember when Barack went there the flies loved landing on that pile.
In most areas they still haven’t learned to feed themselves or purify water. Even after thousands of humanitarian missions.
He is ‘rising up’, not kneeling!
I know I don’t care anymore.
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