Emancipation Proclamation 1886 Antique_St_Louis The Stone Sentinel Minots Ledge

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Abraham Lincoln President of the United States Signing the Emancipation Proclamation 1864

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Emancipation Proclamation 1886 Antique_St_Louis The Stone Sentinel Minots LedgeEmancipation Proclamation 1886 a commemorative lithograph issued more than two decades after Lincoln's decree, when the Republic was still litigating in marble and ink what the war had settled in blood. The document returns as icon, its clauses recast for a generation tasked with remembering what their fathers had won. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National