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Color image of Abe Lincoln with Emancipation Proclamation text

Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation was issued on January 1, 1863

Credit: The Strobridge Lith. Co., Cincinnati."Abraham Lincoln and his Emancipation Proclamation." c1888. Prints and Photographs Division, Library of Congress.



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