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The First Reading of the Emancipation Proclamation before the Cabinet / Alexander Hay Ritchie, after Francis B. Carpenter / 1866 / National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution / Gift of Mrs. Chester E. King

Remembering President Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation

James G. Barber

November 15, 2017

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