On January 1st, 1863, during the Civil War, President Abraham Lincoln put into effect an executive order that would free any slave in the Confederacy that crossed into Union territory. This order came to be famously known as the Emancipation Proclamation, and would become a major part of his Gettysburg Address speech ten months later.
Picture: First Reading of the Emancipation Proclamation of President Lincoln, an oil painting by Francis Bicknell Carpenter.
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