According to the request made in your behalf, the original draft of the Emancipation Proclamation is herewith inclosed. The formal words at the top and the conclusion, except the signature ...

CHICAGO, Wednesday, Nov. 4. The original draft of the Emancipation, which was donated to the Northwestern Fair for the benefit of the Sanitary Commission, is now in the hands of the Commission who ...

No Confederate states took the offer, and on January 1 Lincoln presented the Emancipation Proclamation. The proclamation declared, "all persons held as slaves within any States, or designated part ...

In doing so, we also recognize that Juneteenth also marks the unforgivable two-year delay from Lincoln’s original Emancipation Proclamation, the first of a long history of our Nation’s attempts to ...

In this lesson, students explore the realities of life after the Emancipation Proclamation and learn about courageous individuals who fought against the inequalities African Americans experienced.

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Reader Bob Erlich asked about preservation efforts in Houston’s Freedmen’s Town, the historic space just west of downtown where an African-American community emerged and thrived following the Civil ...