President Lincoln Urged Freedmen to Return to Africa…

President Abraham Lincoln‘s (pictured left) historic issuing of the Emancipation Proclamation in September 1862 began the long and arduous process…
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President Lincoln Reads First Draft of Emancipation Proclamation…

The 13th Amendment to the United States Constitution was a long and contested legal battle between Union President Abraham Lincoln…
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Slavery-Ending Document Abe Lincoln Signed Restored

CHICAGO — Time had taken its toll on the nearly 147-year-old document, its surface creased and buckled, its inscriptions faded…
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