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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. Juli 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.
1. Juli 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...
Eliot rescued Alexander from a life in slavery, employed him, and became his friend. In 1885 he published a moving biography, The Story of Archer Alexander, in which he wrote, “I never knew a man, white or black, more thoroughly Christian . . . in all conduct and demeanor.”
6. Juli 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. But Alexander didn't...
6. Mai 2016 · Archer Alexander escaped from his owner and found refuge with William Greenleaf Eliot Jr., a Unitarian minister and abolitionist. Eliot tried to buy his freedom and rescue him from slave catchers, but Alexander was captured and imprisoned in the Old City Jail.
13. Juli 2020 · About Archer Alexander. 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. There he married Louisa, and had at least two children.
