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
Bu sanat eseri hakkında
- Eser Adı: Emancipation Proclamation
- Sanatçı: Abraham Lincoln
- Yıl: 1864
- Biçim: Portrait
- Telif hakkı durumu: Kamu malı (telif hakkı bulunmayan)
- Sergilendiği yer: The Abraham Lincoln Foundation of The Union League of Philadelphia
- Yaratım dönemi: Late 19th Century
- Külliyat bağlamı: civil war era , abolition ideals
- Ana renk: White
- Anahtar Kelimeler: “vintage printing style” , “historical document” , abraham lincoln artwork


