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Emancipation proclamation : this proclamation, issued Jan. 1, 1863, declared that the slaves in the secessionist states should be free because those states had not returned to the Union by that date, here a Union officer is telling slaves in a rebel state that they are now free
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- Creator:
- Civil War Souvenir Center (Gettysburg, Pa.)
- Date:
- unknown
- Format:
- Still image
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