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An image of a "freed slave" wasn't in the original design of a group of sculptures on the west-facing side of The Soldiers and Sailors Monument known as “Peace.”

An image of a "freed slave" wasn't in the original design of a group of sculptures on the west-facing side of The Soldiers and Sailors Monument known as “Peace.”

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The Monument’s Freed Slave: A Brief History

The image was remarkable for its time, when most Civil War memorials focused on soldiers and neglected the issue of slavery altogether.

Evan West

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