Virtual Trivia
Question 8: Lest We Forget
April 8, 2021
Of the more than 130 Civil War Monuments in Connecticut, how many include an image related to slavery or emancipation?
- 24
- 12
- 6
- 2
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| Hartford’s Sailors and Soldiers Memorial Arch has six statues on its exterior: the sixth statue is of a slave, his shackles broken, holding a slate with the letters A,B,C on it. | Waterbury’s Soldiers’ Monument has on its south face a female figure sitting in front of an eagle whose beak supports the word Emancipation, holding a book. Her right foot rests on a cannon beside which is a broken shackle. |