Emancipation Proclamation

Some of the -- the Emancipation Proclamation is the actual proclamation.

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Here is a link to the National Archives site about the Emancipation Proclamation, formally announced by President Lincoln on January 1, 1863.

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The Emancipation Proclamation, by its own terms, did not apply to the Territories.

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The Emancipation Proclamation, by its own terms, did not apply to the Territories.

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The Emancipation Proclamation, by its own terms, did not apply to the Territories.

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Earlier this afternoon, Henry Louis Gates, Jr. delivered a stirring commentary on NPR's All Things Considered (originally written for TheRoot. com) in which he compared today to the day after Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation, and shared the reaction of Frederick Douglass,

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Take the most broadly transformational political acts in the history of the U.S. -- the signing of the Emancipation Proclamation and the approval of the 14th Amendment in the 1860s, women's suffrage in 1920, the Civil Rights Act and Voting Rights Act of the mid-1960s, the establishment of the EPA and the Clean Water Act and Clean Air Act in the early 1970s, to name a few.

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Lincoln had officially issued the Emancipation Proclamation on January 1, 1863, but it had taken two more years of Union victories to end the war and for this news to reach slaves in remote sections of the country.

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Earlier this afternoon, Henry Louis Gates, Jr. delivered a stirring commentary on NPR's All Things Considered (originally written for TheRoot. com) in which he compared today to the day after Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation, and shared the reaction of Frederick Douglass,

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The National Archives opens the second-half of its year-long Civil War exhibition, which covers the freeing of the slaves and the war's closing battles, with a rare public display of the original Emancipation Proclamation, through Sunday.

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