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On September 22, 1862 President Lincoln issued a preliminary Emancipation Proclamation: . . . on the first day of January . . . all persons held as slaves within any State, or designated part of a State, the people whereof shall then be in rebellion against the United States shall be then, thenceforward, and forever free. Read Ralph Waldo Emersons thoughts on the Proclamation from the November 1862 edition of The Atlantic.
Posted on: Mon, 22 Sep 2014 21:00:01 +0000

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