click image for close-up Click here for the text of this historical document ... The decree also left room for a plan of compensated emancipation. No Confederate states took the offer, and ...

The meeting soon adjourned, and the preliminary Emancipation Proclamation was ... And the pen with which Lincoln signed the final document belongs to the Massachusetts Historical Society.

9-10.5 Analyze how a text uses structure to emphasize key points ... This video explores the Great Migration and the idea that the Emancipation Proclamation did not live up to its promises.

Actors on Monday reenacted the reading of the 1835 Emancipation Proclamation which declared all slaves in the Cayman Islands ...

WASHINGTON — Each year on April 16, Washington, D.C., celebrates Emancipation Day — the day in 1862 when President Abraham Lincoln signed the DC Compensated Emancipation Act into law ...