Abraham Lincoln is well-known for his extraordinary political career. Elected twice by the American public, Lincoln's ...

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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.