The monument stands tall in the center of Lincoln Park in Washington D.C. A solid bronze statue of Abraham Lincoln holding a copy of the Emancipation Proclamation firmly in his right hand while his left hand comforting an unshackled slave. The first contribution of five dollars to building the monument was made by former slave Charlotte Scott as others followed the monument was funded entirely by the contribution of freed slaves & the last person to be captured under the Fugitive Slave Act, Archer Alexander.