New York: Statue of US President Thomas Jefferson, attendance for more than a century in the New York City Council, fell after a reassessment of the public commission for the legacy of the Founder Father who was also a slave.
New York City Public Design Commission chose unanimously on Monday to dismantle 7 feet bronze (2.13 meters) from Jefferson, who had oversee the process in the most populous US city since 1915.
The Commission agreed to lend 187 years of sculpture Long term for New-York history society.
This is a plaster model from a statue that is still on display in the US Capitol Rotunda.
“Jefferson embodies some of the most embarrassing parts of the long history of our country,” Adams Adams Board, Co-Cure of the Council’s Black, Latino, and Asia Caucus, told commissions.
“It’s time for the city to play the page and move forward.” A similar monument has become the target of anti-racial protests in recent years.
The statues of the leaders of the Civil War Confederation have also been demolished.
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After writing that “everyone was created equal” as the main author of the declaration of independence, he also enslaved more than 600 people and the father of at least six children with Sally Hemings, a woman he slavery.
Not everyone supports the removal of the statue.
Sean Wilentz, an American historical professor at Princeton University, wrote in a letter read to the Commission: “The statue specifically respects Jefferson for his biggest contribution to America.” (Reporting by Brendan O’Brien in Chicago; Editing by Howard Goller)