While reflecting at Lincoln Park, I saw two statues symbolizing American public history or the civil rights movement. The Emancipation Memorial shows a slave kneeling at the feet of Lincoln and is depicting Lincoln in a God like fashion. The roots article says “No longer isolated in his appeal to an unseen power, the slave kneels, newly freed, under the benign gesture of the towering, Christ-like figure of Lincoln.” With Lincoln’s arm over the head of the slave, kind of like he is absolving his sins. The slave has a blank expression on his face, he is looking into the distance not at Lincoln directly, however, Lincoln is looking down at him. This memorial is contradictory being that the “Emancipation Proclamation” declares that all slaves