The Emancipation Proclamation also stated men of color would be allowed to join the Union army, an invitation they gladly accepted. By the end of the Civil War, nearly 200,000 Black men had fought as ...
CLAIBORNE PARISH, La. (KTAL/KMSS) – A man who was once enslaved in Claiborne Parish, Louisiana, once told historians in Oklahoma the story of how the Emancipation Proclamation changed his life on Gee ...
One of about two dozen surviving original copies of the Emancipation Proclamation will go on display at the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum for Juneteenth Independence Day. The ...
This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. CLAIBORNE PARISH, La. (KTAL/KMSS) – A man ...
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