African American man reading a newspaper with the headline 'Presidential Proclamation, Slavery' which refers to President Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation of January 1863. Watercolour by Henry Louis Stephens (1824-1882).
African American man reading a newspaper with the headline 'Presidential Proclamation, Slavery' which refers to President Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation of January 1863. Watercolour by Henry Louis Stephens (1824-1882).
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