New York: US President Thomas JeffersonStatue, a presence for more than a century New york The City Council Chamber, coming down after the re -evaluation of a public commission of the legacy of the founding father, was also a slave.
The New York City Public Design Commission unanimously voted unanimously to end Jefferson’s 7-foot (2.13-meter) bronze equality, which has seen the proceedings in the most populous USCITY since 1915.
The Commission agreed to lend the New-York Historical Society to the 187-year-old statue for a long time. It is still a plaster model of a statue in the US Capital Rotunda.
“Jefferson adopted some of the most embarrassing parts of our country’s long and fine history,” CouncilParson Adrian AdamsCouncil’s co-chairman, Lathani And the Asian Cocks told the Commission. “This is the time to turn on the page for the city and move forward.”
Similar monuments have become the goal of anti -racism protests in recent years. The idols of the idols of the Civil War have also been disintegrated.
JeffersonThe place in American history is complex.
It is written that “all men have been made equal”. As the primary writer of the declaration of independence, he also enslaved more than 600 people and gave birth to at least six children with Sally Hemings, a woman whom she made a slave.
Not everyone supported the removal of the statue. Scene Villintez, a Professor at an American history of Princeton University, wrote in a letter to the Commission: “The statue especially honors Jefferson for its greatest contribution to the US, in fact, for mankind.” (Reporting by Brendon O’Brien in Chicago; editing by Howard Goller)
