Emancipation Proclamation Announced
The Emancipation Proclamation, which declared that all slaves in Confederate states were to be free, appears in the first column of this New York Herald. This newspaper was published the day after President Abraham Lincoln issued the proclamation, effective Jan. 1, 1863.
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'The New York Herald,' Sept. 23, 1862
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