On Jan. 1, 1863 President Abraham Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation, granting freedom to all enslaved persons ...
WILLIAMSTOWN — On Sept. 22, 1862, President Abraham Lincoln issued a preliminary Emancipation Proclamation, warning that any state still in open rebellion at the start of the new year would see all ...
In March 1863, two months after President Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation, a Black man known as Peter (other accounts name him as Gordon) escaped a Louisiana plantation, endured ...
Picture the Emancipation Proclamation, the Civil War-era executive order that changed the legal status of enslaved African Americans in secessionist states, and you might imagine a large broadside, ...
One hundred and forty years ago on Jan. 1, the Emancipation Proclamation struck the shackles from 4 million African-American slaves. It was the single most revolutionary document in our history after ...
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