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Emancipation Garden

Address: Between Tolbod Gade and Fort Christian, Charlotte Amalie, St. Thomas

Category: Parks, Gardens/Arboretums, Memorials/Monuments
Location: St. Thomas

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Built to commemorate the freeing of slaves in 1848, the garden was the site of a 150th anniversary celebration of emancipation. A bronze bust of a freed slave blowing a symbolic conch shell commemorates this anniversary. The gazebo here is used for official ceremonies. Two other monuments show the island's Danish-American connection—a bust of Denmark's King Christian and a scaled-down model of the U.S. Liberty Bell.

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