Sports & Outdoors
History BuffLincoln Park
No admission feeStroll Capitol Hill's largest park to see the 1876 Emancipation statue and the Mary McLeod Bethune Memorial.
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SightseeingHistory Buff
Emancipation Memorial
Visit the 1876 Lincoln statue paid for by freed slaves in Lincoln Park on Capitol Hill, and read the debate it still stirs.
Lincoln Park, East Capitol Street and 11th Street, Washington, DC · Washington, DC
About Emancipation Memorial
This bronze of Abraham Lincoln holding the Emancipation Proclamation over a kneeling freed man stands in Lincoln Park, east of the Capitol on Capitol Hill. Freed slaves raised the money, starting with a $5 gift from Charlotte Scott of Virginia. Frederick Douglass spoke at the dedication on April 14, 1876, and later criticized the design, a debate that continues today. In 1974 the statue was turned to face the Mary McLeod Bethune Memorial across the park.
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