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From: Dorris Keeven-Franke <dorris.keevenfranke at gmail.com>
To: Dorris Keeven Franke <dorris.keevenfranke at gmail.com>
Sent: Thu, Jun 25, 2020 7:24 pm
Subject: Quote of Archer Alexander
Hello,
I want to share the story of the Emancipation Monument in Washington, D.C. that you may have seen in the news recently…. Feel free to quote or share its’ story….Freedom’s Memorial InLincoln Park, in Washington, D.C. sits the Emancipation monument.With Abraham Lincoln and ArcherAlexander. The slave rising has a name! He was a real man. His name was ArcherAlexander, and he was called Archey by his family. “It represents PresidentLincoln in the act of emancipating a negro slave who kneels at his feet toreceive the benediction, but whose hand has grasped the chain as if in the actof breaking it, indicating the historical fact that the slaves took active partin their own deliverance. He was, I believe, the last fugitive slave taken inMissouri under the old laws of slavery. His freedom came directly from the handof President Lincoln ... and his own hands had helped to break the chains thatbound him. His oldest son had given his life to the cause. When I showed to himthe photographic picture of the "Freedom's Memorial" monument, soonafter its inauguration in Washington, and explained to him its meaning, andthat he would thus be remembered in connection with Abraham Lincoln, theemancipator of his race, he ...exclaimed, "Now I'se free! I thank the goodLord that he has 'livered me from all my troubles, and I'se lived to see this.”Wrote William Greenleaf Eliot When the formerly enslaved CharlotteScott heard the news of President Lincoln’s death, she took the first fivedollars in money she had earned as a free woman, and gave them to her formermaster Mr. William P. Rucker a Union refugee from Virginia, who lived inMarietta Ohio then. She asked him “to make a monument to MassaLincoln, the best friend the colored people ever had”. Ruckerwould take those funds to Gen. T.H.C. Smith, and he would make sure that they weregiven to Mr. James Yeatman, of who he asked “Would it not be wellto.take up this suggestion and make it known to the freedmen?” Andwith that it would soon come under the help of the Western Sanitary Commission,with William G. Eliot at the helm. He would share it with many of thebenefactors of the Freedmens Bureau, active during the Civil War.“THE Western Sanitary Commission, originally established byorder of Major-General Frémont, and afterwards recognized and made permanent bythe secretary of war, Edwin M. Stanton. Its members were James E. Yeatman, J.B. Johnson, George Partridge, Carlos S. Greeley, and W. G. Eliot. Besides thehospital work for the sick and wounded, the Western Sanitary Commission wasintrusted by the authorities with the care and relief of Union refugees, and offugitive slaves from the South. Many thousands of both these classes ofsufferers thronged to St. Louis, generally in wretched condition, not onlyimpoverished, but thriftless and inefficient. In one way or another they weretaken care of until some sort of work was found by which they could earn theirbread. Special funds were liberally contributed, chiefly from New England, forsuch uses.By 1866 Gen. J. W. Davidson troops hadhelped raise $12,150, and then to $16,242 for the monument. (Today thatwould be equal to over $130,000). The Monument was totally funded by theformer enslaved people. Archer Alexander is the Great Great Grandfather ofMuhammad Ali.Read this message in your browser at https://archeralexander.wordpress.com/2020/06/25/the-emancipation-monument/
Dorris Keeven-FrankeAuthor, Historian, Genealogist
Cell: 636-221-1524
EMail: dorris.keevenfranke at gmail.com
Website: https://dorriskeevenfranke.wordpress.com/
Here is my website about Archer https://archeralexander.wordpress.com/
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