1 January 1863
Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865
Printed document
Title: Emancipation Proclamation
Official State Department printing of the final version, printed by the U.S. Government Printing Office. "...I do order and declare that all persons held as slaves within said designated States and parts of States are and henceforward shall be free..." This is no. 10 in Eberstadt's bibliography of the Emancipation Proclamation. Printed circa 3 January 1863.
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