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Here are 19 Juneteenth coloring pages that reflect on the progress that has been made and the joy that comes from it.
click image for close ... room for a plan of compensated emancipation. No Confederate states took the offer, and on January 1 Lincoln presented the Emancipation Proclamation.
Though President Lincoln had declared all slaves free with the Emancipation Proclamation ... The striking image galvanized the abolitionist movement, as people were faced with the stark ...
About the Archive This is a digitized version of an article from The Times’s print archive ... week a sketch of the history of the Emancipation Proclamation, as given to him by Mr. LINCOLN ...
On the steps of what is now the Knott House Museum, where the Emancipation Proclamation was first read in the state of Florida, it was read again – 159 years later. General Edward McCook first ...