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A coach filled with formerly enslaved people carrying the Emancipation Proclamation in triumph, circa 1863. The coach has copies of the proclamation, issued by President Lincoln, pinned to its sides and the passengers are waving them like flags. Published in Le Monde illustré. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)U.S. President Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation during the Civil War, declaring that all enslaved people in rebellious states “are, and henceforward shall be free.”
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