Originally issued by Lincoln during the Civil War in 1863, the proclamation declared enslaved people in the Confederate ...

Griffin paid a record $13.7M for the 13th Amendment and $4.4 million for the Emancipation Proclamation. Both documents were ...

Billionaire hedge funder Kenneth Griffin was the buyer of record-breaking copies of the 13th Amendment and the Emancipation ...

Ken Griffin bought an Abraham Lincoln–signed copy of the 13th Amendment, for $13.7 million, and the Emancipation Proclamation ...

Ken Griffin paid a record $13.7M for the 13th Amendment and $4.4 million for the Emancipation Proclamation. Both documents were signed by Abraham Lincoln.

Description A print for the United States Postal Service Emancipation Proclamation Forever stamp. The rectangular print has a white background and is covered in text in black and red ink that reads ...

A signed print of the art for the United States Postal Service Emancipation Proclamation Freedom stamp. The rectangular print has a white background and is covered in text in black and red ink ...

Griffin reset the record for any document signed by Lincoln when he paid Sotheby’s $13.7 million on Thursday for a rare, handwritten copy of the 13th Amendment.

It was 160 years ago that enslaved people in Galveston, Texas, learned they had been freed — after Civil War's end and two years after President Abraham Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation.