[Opinion] Joseph Hodges Choate and the New York City Draft Riots - streetsofsalem

Joseph Hodges Choate and the New York City Draft Riots - streetsofsalem

Salem is kind of an odd statue city, in my opinion. Some statues get placed by small constituencies, while others are erected in inappropriate locales. Salem’s most recent statue, of educator and abolitionist Charlotte Forten, is an unfortunate example of the latter. Charlotte certainly deserves a statue and I think her representation is lovely, but placing a diminuative bronze in the concrete “park” that is named for her but yet has nothing to …