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Towards Freedom by Basil Watson · Lexington Arts · CultureHub

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Towards Freedom

by Basil Watson

Corner of N. Limestone and E. Fourth Street

Lexington

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About this artwork

This monument is an effort to memorialize Lexington's cruel history of slavery and to help us heal from it, to honor Lewis and Harriet Hayden, two of Lexington’s enslaved who became famed abolitionists, to remember the stories of other enslaved persons in Lexington and to commemorate their paths to freedom via Lexington’s Underground Railroad.

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