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May 5, 2017 · Read the full text of President Abraham Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation, issued on January 1, 1863, during the Civil War. The proclamation declared the freedom of slaves in certain states and parts of states in rebellion against the United States.
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Read the full text and transcript of President Abraham Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation, issued on January 1, 1863, during the Civil War. The proclamation declared the freedom of all slaves in the rebellious states and authorized their enlistment in the Union army.
King's most famous invocation of the Emancipation Proclamation was in a speech from the steps of the Lincoln Memorial at the 1963 March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom (often referred to as the "I Have a Dream" speech). King began the speech saying "Five score years ago, a great American, in whose symbolic shadow we stand, signed the ...
May 23, 2024 · Emancipation Proclamation, edict issued by U.S. Pres. Abraham Lincoln on January 1, 1863, that freed the slaves of the Confederate states in rebellion against the Union. It took more than two years for news of the proclamation to reach the slaves in the distant state of Texas. The arrival of the news on June 19 (of 1865) is now celebrated as a ...
This is a complete reading (and text) of Abraham Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation. President Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation on Janu...
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