The Emancipation Proclamation, issued by President Abraham Lincoln on January 1, 1863, marked a turning point in American history. This momentous document declared that all enslaved people in the states currently in rebellion against the Union were “then, thenceforward, and forever free.” However, the path to this historic proclamation was […]
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