Emancipation Proclamation
Abraham Lincoln(1809 – 1865)
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President Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865), 16th President of the United States until his assassination on April 14, 1865, by John Wilkes Booth, signed the Emancipation Proclamation on January 1, 1863. Issued as an executive order based on his powers as commander-in-chief, the proclamation declared that all slaves in rebellious states were free. This was a major blow to the Confederacy and transformed the American Civil War into a conflict to end the institution of slavery. This copy of the Emancipation Proclamation is one of the 26 known copies of the Leland-Boker edition. This
作品詳細
- 作品名: Emancipation Proclamation
- 作家: Abraham Lincoln
- 制作年: 1864
- 技法: Portrait
- 著作権の状態: パブリックドメイン
- 展示場所: The Abraham Lincoln Foundation of The Union League of Philadelphia
- 動勢: Historical Painting
- 制作時期: Late 19th Century
- 配色: Monochrome
- キーワード: “black and white print” , civil war art” , “vintage printing style”