click image for close-up Click here for the text of this historical document ...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.

an exploration of the historical context and the effects of the Emancipation Proclamation, and a ceremonial reading of the document itself. The museum, located at 14 Wharfside St., is also ...

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 ...