. This is the full version of my essay on the statues debate for the NYR Daily, first published 9 September 2020 under the headline “When Monuments Fall”. “We stand today at the national center to perform something like a national act – an act which is to go into history.” So said the great nineteenth-century former slave and staunch abolitionist Frederick Douglass at the unveiling of the Emancipation Memorial in Lincoln Park, Washington, D.C., in 1876. “That we are […]

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