In 1863, President Abraham Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation formally freeing all slaves in the Confederate States.
On January 1, 1863, he issued the Emancipation Proclamation that declared forever free those slaves within the Confederacy.
That happened in 1981, nearly 120 years after Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation in the United States.
It wasn't just like the Emancipation Proclamation, you know, read it and then all of the sudden everything changes.
Unlike the Emancipation Proclamation, it had the power of law, and Seward predicted, prematurely, that the process of Reconstruction was almost complete.
Almost two years before the Emancipation Proclamation, millions of Americans already understood that this was to be a war for or against slavery.
It is true that Mr. Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation, after which there was a commitment to give 40 acres and a mule.
In 1863, the Emancipation Proclamation was issued by President Abraham Lincoln, adding momentum to signal the beginning of the end of slavery in America.
In 2010, a copy of the Emancipation Proclamation signed by President Lincoln was hung in the Oval Office above a bust of Martin Luther King, Jr.
It's also known as Juneteenth, a holiday that marks the day slaves in Galveston, Texas found out that they had been freed by the Emancipation Proclamation.
The Emancipation Proclamation stands among the documents of human freedom.
January 1, 2013 marks the sesquicentennial of the Emancipation Proclamation.
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Christie's, in a competing Dec. 19 auction of U.S. historical manuscripts, is selling a copy of the Emancipation Proclamation signed by both Lincoln and Secretary of State William Seward.
So literally, it's two-plus years later that these folks in Galveston, Texas finally get the info, you know, the information about the Emancipation Proclamation and find out that they're free.
On January 1st, we observed the 150th anniversary of the Emancipation Proclamation, and this August will mark 50 years since the 1963 March on Washington and Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
To commemorate the 150th anniversary, the National Archives in Washington, DC will display the Emancipation Proclamation in its East Rotunda Gallery later this year -- for three days, from December 30, 2012 to January 1, 2013.
He pointed out it was a freed slave, Phillip Reed, who helped to cast the bronze statue, which was placed there December 2, 1863, not even a year after President Abraham Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation.
In July, 1862, when Lincoln presented the Cabinet with a draft of the Emancipation Proclamation, Seward warned that it could prompt foreign governments to intervene on behalf of the South, and said that it should be delivered at a time of military strength, not weakness.
And the reason we brought together some elders and some young people very briefly was not just to visit the Oval Office and see the Emancipation Proclamation, which is going to be on loan to us, but it's also just to remind us that there were some extraordinarily courageous young people like Dr. Dorothy Height, like Mrs.
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