Emancipation Proclamation

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• 3/6/2022
  

  How Lincoln and Douglass Joined Forces for Freedom

  by Jonathan W. White

  Lincoln's discussions with Frederick Douglass should make clear the difference between the president's public statements and his inner convictions on emancipation. 

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• SOURCE: ABC News
  5-26-16
  

  Abraham Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation among documents sold for $6.2m in New York

  The copy sold is one of 14 signed by Lincoln, his vice president, the speaker of the House Schuyler Colfax and in this case, by 36 senators.

• SOURCE: Vanessa Varin for AHA Today
  2-5-13
  

  Emancipation Proclamation Sesquicentennial Events Offer a Window into Current Historiography Debate

  Vanessa Varin is Assistant Editor, Web and Social Media at the American Historical Association.January 1, 2013, marked the sesquicentennial of the Emancipation Proclamation. Although the general historical consensus is that slavery was at the root of the conflict, questions about the role of the proclamation in defining the Civil War and 19th century race relations continue to dominate the field. In the past few weeks, Washington, D.C., has hosted two events on the topic: A panel discussion at the National Archives (NARA), chaired by Annette Gordon-Reed and featuring James Oakes, Eric Foner, James McPherson, and Ed Ayers, and a more intimate lecture led by Foner at the Wilson Center and sponsored by the National History Center. The well-attended events were an opportunity to promote this history to the public, and a window into the current state of the debate over how we should understand the document and its centrality to the Civil War.  

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• Does Slavery Still Exist Today?

  by Robert E. Wright

   Credit: Flickr/Inheritance magazine.