The New York Times

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

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The Royal Gazette

Black History Month: Emancipation proclamation (1863)

This document gave the states of the Confederacy until January 1, 1863 to lay down their arms and peaceably re-enter the Union; if these states continued their rebellion, all slaves in those seceding ...
WDAF-TV

This emancipation proclamation predates President Lincoln’s

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated.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. ST. LOUIS – In 1861, Major General John C.
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 ...
University of Dayton

Celebrating Juneteenth and honoring the long history of Emancipation Days in Dayton

Over the last few weeks we’ve heard a lot about Juneteenth. Juneteenth celebrations happen on June 19 and celebrate the day in 1865 that enslaved people in Texas learned about the Emancipation ...