Emancipation Proclamation
Abraham Lincoln(1809 – 1865)
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President Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865), 16th President of the United States until his assassination on April 14, 1865, by John Wilkes Booth, signed the Emancipation Proclamation on January 1, 1863. Issued as an executive order based on his powers as commander-in-chief, the proclamation declared that all slaves in rebellious states were free. This was a major blow to the Confederacy and transformed the American Civil War into a conflict to end the institution of slavery. This copy of the Emancipation Proclamation is one of the 26 known copies of the Leland-Boker edition. This
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- 作品名称: Emancipation Proclamation
- 艺术家: Abraham Lincoln
- 年份: 1864
- 规格: Portrait
- 版权状态: 公有领域
- 所在地: The Abraham Lincoln Foundation of The Union League of Philadelphia
- 创作时期: Late 19th Century
- 语料上下文: documentary art , union victory
- 配色方案: Monochrome
- 关键词: antique print” , “lincoln portrait” , “documentary art”