Period 5 Question 6

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Primary Source

Lithograph depicting an African American family gathered around a soldier reading a newspaper. The family all look to the soldier in varying states of shock and hope as he reads the emancipation proclamation. Present are eleven people including a mother who is kneeling and praying in the center of the image.

Lucius Stebbins, Reading the Emancipation Proclamation, 1864 (The Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History)