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From: Dorris Keeven-Franke <dorris.keevenfranke@gmail.com><br>
To: Dorris Keeven Franke <dorris.keevenfranke@gmail.com><br>
Sent: Thu, Jun 25, 2020 7:24 pm<br>
Subject: Quote of Archer Alexander<br>
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<div class="yiv5781461342">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….</div>
<div class="yiv5781461342MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10pt;background-color:white;background-position:initial initial;background-repeat:initial initial;" class="yiv5781461342">Freedom’s Memorial </span></div>
<div class="yiv5781461342MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10pt;background-color:white;background-position:initial initial;background-repeat:initial initial;" class="yiv5781461342"> </span><span style="color:rgb(30, 30, 30);font-family:serif;font-size:15pt;background-color:white;" class="yiv5781461342">In
Lincoln Park, in Washington, D.C. sits the Emancipation monument.</span></div>
<div class="yiv5781461342MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10pt;background-color:white;background-position:initial initial;background-repeat:initial initial;" class="yiv5781461342">With Abraham Lincoln and Archer
Alexander. The slave rising has a name! He was a real man. His name was Archer
Alexander, and he was called Archey by his family. “It represents President
Lincoln in the act of emancipating a negro slave who kneels at his feet to
receive the benediction, but whose hand has grasped the chain as if in the act
of breaking it, indicating the historical fact that the slaves took active part
in their own deliverance. He was, I believe, the last fugitive slave taken in
Missouri under the old laws of slavery. His freedom came directly from the hand
of President Lincoln ... and his own hands had helped to break the chains that
bound him. His oldest son had given his life to the cause. When I showed to him
the photographic picture of the "Freedom's Memorial" monument, soon
after its inauguration in Washington, and explained to him its meaning, and
that he would thus be remembered in connection with Abraham Lincoln, the
emancipator of his race, he ...exclaimed, "Now I'se free! I thank the good
Lord that he has 'livered me from all my troubles, and I'se lived to see this<i class="yiv5781461342">.”
</i>Wrote<i class="yiv5781461342"> </i>William Greenleaf Eliot</span></div>
<div class="yiv5781461342MsoNormal"><i class="yiv5781461342"><span style="font-size:10pt;background-color:white;background-position:initial initial;background-repeat:initial initial;" class="yiv5781461342"> </span></i><span style="font-size:10pt;background-color:white;" class="yiv5781461342">When the formerly enslaved Charlotte
Scott heard the news of President Lincoln’s death, she took the first five
dollars in money she had earned as a free woman, and gave them to her former
master Mr. William P. Rucker a Union refugee from Virginia, who lived in
Marietta Ohio then. She asked him “</span><b style="font-size:10pt;background-color:white;" class="yiv5781461342"><i class="yiv5781461342">to make a monument to Massa
Lincoln, the best friend the colored people ever had”. </i></b><span style="font-size:10pt;background-color:white;" class="yiv5781461342">Rucker
would take those funds to Gen. T.H.C. Smith, and he would make sure that they were
given to Mr. James Yeatman, of who he asked </span><b style="font-size:10pt;background-color:white;" class="yiv5781461342"><i class="yiv5781461342">“Would it not be well
to.take up this suggestion and make it known to the freedmen?” </i></b><span style="font-size:10pt;background-color:white;" class="yiv5781461342">And
with 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 the
benefactors of the Freedmens Bureau, active during the Civil War.</span></div>
<div class="yiv5781461342MsoNormal"><i class="yiv5781461342"><span style="font-size:10pt;background-color:white;background-position:initial initial;background-repeat:initial initial;" class="yiv5781461342">“</span></i><span style="font-size:10pt;background-color:white;" class="yiv5781461342">THE Western Sanitary Commission, originally established by
order of Major-General Frémont, and afterwards recognized and made permanent by
the 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 the
hospital work for the sick and wounded, the Western Sanitary Commission was
intrusted by the authorities with the care and relief of Union refugees, and of
fugitive slaves from the South. Many thousands of both these classes of
sufferers thronged to St. Louis, generally in wretched condition, not only
impoverished, but thriftless and inefficient. In one way or another they were
taken care of until some sort of work was found by which they could earn their
bread. Special funds were liberally contributed, chiefly from New England, for
such uses<i class="yiv5781461342">.</i></span></div>
<div class="yiv5781461342MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10pt;background-color:white;background-position:initial initial;background-repeat:initial initial;" class="yiv5781461342">By 1866 Gen. J. W. Davidson troops had
helped raise $12,150, and then to $16,242 for the monument. (Today that
would be equal to over $130,000). The Monument was totally funded by the
former enslaved people. Archer Alexander is the Great Great Grandfather of
Muhammad Ali.</span><span style="font-size:10pt;" class="yiv5781461342"></span></div>
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<div>Dorris Keeven-Franke</div>
<div>Author, Historian, Genealogist</div>
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<div>Cell: 636-221-1524<br class="yiv5781461342"><a rel="nofollow" ymailto="mailto:dorris.keevenfranke@gmail.com" target="_blank" href="mailto:dorris.keevenfranke@gmail.com" class="yiv5781461342">EMail: dorris.keevenfranke@gmail.com</a><br class="yiv5781461342">Website: https://dorriskeevenfranke.wordpress.com/<br class="yiv5781461342"><br class="yiv5781461342">Here is my website about Archer https://archeralexander.wordpress.com/<br class="yiv5781461342"><br class="yiv5781461342"><br class="yiv5781461342"></div>
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