'1863:<br />"All persons held as slaves within any state... shall be then, thenceforward, and forever free"'
the Emancipation Proclamation
HISTORIC AMERICAN DOCUMENTS: 1863:<br />All persons held as slaves within any state... shall be then, thenceforward, and forever free
1863:<br />"All persons held as slaves within any state... shall be then, thenceforward, and forever free"
1863:<br />"All persons held as slaves within any state... shall be then, thenceforward, and forever free"
HISTORIC AMERICAN DOCUMENTS
the Emancipation Proclamation
HISTORIC AMERICAN DOCUMENTS