Abraham Lincoln Statue
Bronze of a rumpled, plain-clothed president honouring cotton workers who opposed slavery.
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This guide to the Abraham Lincoln Statue in Manchester follows Robert Lincoln, the president's son, in nineteen seventeen, as he takes on a sculptor's unflattering bronze of his father and its planned home beside Parliament in London. It turns on George Grey Barnard, the woodcutter he used as a model, and the jibes the figure attracted on both sides of the Atlantic. Lancashire's cotton workers and their letter from Lincoln also run through it. Stand in front of the statue, then walk round to read the plinth.
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