[Texas Eagle]

"I would always ask myself, 'If he's free why is he still on his knees?'"

That's a fair question. Maybe they can just remove the slave?

[Sirius Lee]

"I would always ask myself, 'If he's free why is he still on his knees?'"

Bollocks should ask himself why, even tho' he's been freed, he still chooses to wear chains?

[smvoice]

Maybe he’s on his knees giving thanks to the man who set him free.

[angelcindy]

being on his knees it doesnt mean the same today ....he was thankful ...now it means full of hate

[bray]

Maybe we can just remove the stars from the flag?

[Bonemaker]

These assholes are free...why are they on there knees?

[mewzilla]

Spotlight Essay: Thomas Ball, Freedom’s Memorial, 1875 April 2015 Katherine B. Harnish PhD student, Department of Art History & Archaeology, Washington University in St. Louis

FWIW, I say paws off.

[piasa]

He’s on his knees in gratitude for being freed- it’s an old artistic method of depicting gratitude and it has nothing to do with submission, but the “art critic” in the article is too uneducated to know that, and due to an unjustified sense of entitlement, may not even understand the concept of gratitude.