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  2. Emancipation Proclamation - Wikipedia

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    The Emancipation Proclamation, officially Proclamation 95, [2] [3] was a presidential proclamation and executive order issued by United States President Abraham Lincoln on January 1, 1863, during the American Civil War.

  3. General Order No. 3 - Wikipedia

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    Galveston Texas June 19th 1865. General Orders No. 3. The people of Texas are informed that, in accordance with a proclamation from the Executive of the United States, all slaves are free. This involves an absolute equality of personal rights and rights of property between former masters and slaves, and the connection heretofore existing between them be

  4. Gettysburg Address - Wikipedia

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    Standing on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial in August 1963, King began with a reference, by the style of his opening phrase, to President Lincoln and his enduring words: "Five score years ago, a great American, in whose symbolic shadow we stand today, signed the Emancipation Proclamation. This momentous decree came as a great beacon light of ...

  5. The Emancipation Proclamation in practice: A timeline - AOL

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    The Emancipation Proclamation also stated men of color would be allowed to join the Union army, an invitation they gladly accepted. By the end of the Civil War, nearly 200,000 Black men had fought ...

  6. Today in History: Lincoln issues the Emancipation Proclamation

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    The Emancipation Proclamation switched up the Civil War a lot. It called for the formation and recruitment of black military units, which welcomed an estimated 200,000 African-Americans who ...

  7. American Civil War - Wikipedia

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    Slaves in the border states and those in some former Confederate territory occupied before the Emancipation Proclamation were freed by state action or (on December 6, 1865) by the Thirteenth Amendment. [266] [267] The Emancipation Proclamation enabled African Americans, both free blacks and escaped slaves, to join the Union Army. About 190,000 ...

  8. 'Mayteenth' in Tallahassee: Emancipation Proclamation read ...

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    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 ...

  9. National Half Century Exposition and Lincoln Jubilee - Wikipedia

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    The Emancipation Proclamation was issued by United States president Abraham Lincoln on January 1, 1863. A gathering was held in Chicago in 1911 and an event celebrating the 50th anniversary of emancipation was proposed. [2] It was originally planned for 1913 as the "Illinois (National) Half-Century Anniversary of Negro Freedom". [1]