The Emancipation Proclamation - View the Document
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The Emancipation Proclamation - Resources on The Web
- American Antiquarian Society
- Civil War Trust - The Emancipation Proclamation
- Cornell University Library - "I Will Be Heard!" Abolitionism in America
- First Edition Emancipation Proclamation in 1862 Harper's Weekly
- History.com
- Huffington Post - Letters to Our Ancestors
- Library of Congress - The Abraham Lincoln Papers
- National Endowment for the Humanities EDSITEment
- New York State Library Online Exhibit
- New York Times
- Newberry Library - Lincoln at 200
- NPR: Emancipating Lincoln: A Pragmatic Proclamation
- Our Documents.Gov
- PBS - WGBH
- PBS Newshour
- Smithsonian Institution
- University of Detroit Mercy - Research - Black Abolitionist Archive
- University of Maryland Freedmen and Southern Society Project
The Emancipation Proclamation - Images
This print shows a reenactment of Abraham Lincoln signing the Emancipation Proclamation on July 22, 1862, painted by Francis B. Carpenter at the White House in 1864.
Depicted, from left to right are: Edwin M. Stanton, Secretary of War, Salmon P. Chase, Secretary of the Treasury, President Lincoln, Gideon Welles, Secretary of the Navy, Caleb B. Smith, Secretary of the Interior, William H. Seward, Secretary of State, Montgomery Blair, Postmaster General, and Edward Bates, Attorney General. Simon Cameron and Andrew Jackson are featured as paintings.
Engraved by Alexander Hay Ritchie from a painting by F.B. Carpenter
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