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Controversial Stephen Foster statue removed in Pittsburgh - Daily Mail

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A 118-year-old statue of the 'Oh! Susanna' songwriter was removed from a Pittsburgh park Thursday after criticism that the work is demeaning because it includes a slave sitting at his feet, plucking a banjo. In October, the Pittsburgh Art Commission voted to take the Stephen Foster sculpture out of Schenley Plaza and find it a new home. For now, it will remain in a storage lot, out of the public view. On Thursday, workers used straps and construction equipment to lift the 10-foot-bronze statue off its base. It was strapped to a flatbed truck and taken away. The shoeless banjo player is based on 'Uncle Ned,' a fictional slave and subject of a song by the same name. Critics have long decried the statue as racist. A statue honoring an African-American woman will be put up in its place.

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