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Commemorative Print of the Emancipation Proclamation, 1864

IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. In the summer of 1862, Lincoln ...
The Daily Item

A print of the Emancipation Proclamation signed by Lincoln will be auctioned by Christie’s

PHILADELPHIA — Less than a year after President Abraham Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation, while our nascent nation was still in the throes of the Civil War, two industrious Philadelphians ...
The New York Times

THE EMANCIPATION PROCLAMATION; Interesting Sketch of its History by the Artist, Carpenter.

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The Selma Times-Journal

Celebrating 163 years of the Emancipation Proclamation

On Jan. 1, 1863 President Abraham Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation, granting freedom to all enslaved persons ...
ABC News

Copies of Emancipation Proclamation, 13th Amendment Signed by Lincoln Sell for Millions

Historical documents fetch more than $4 million combined. — -- Some of the most historical and consequential anti-slavery documents in U.S. history -- signed by President Abraham Lincoln -- ...
Time

How a Miniature Emancipation Proclamation Helped Recruit Black Soldiers During the Civil War

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, ...
PBS

Emancipation Proclamation

click image for close-up Click here for the text of this historical document. As early as 1849, Abraham Lincoln believed that slaves should be emancipated, advocating a program in which they would be ...
Observer-Reporter

Emancipation Proclamation made headlines, sparked controversy in 1863

When the new year arrived at midnight on Jan. 1, 1863, the quiet of most of the region’s small towns and rural expanses might well have been briefly disturbed by church bells ringing out. But there’s ...
World Socialist Web Site

The enduring significance of the Emancipation Proclamation

Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation: The End of Slavery in America, by Allen C. Guelzo (Simon & Schuster, 2004) This work, the first major treatment on the Emancipation Proclamation in 40 years, is ...
The University of Chicago Chronicle

What Juneteenth tells us about the history of emancipation

“The people of Texas are informed that, in accordance with a proclamation from the Executive of the United States, all slaves are free.” Thus declared Major General Gordon Granger of the Union Army on ...
The New York Times

The Emancipation Proclamation.

TimesMachine is an exclusive benefit for home delivery and digital subscribers. About the Archive This is a digitized version of an article from The Times’s print archive, before the start of online ...