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New Year’s Day -January 1, 2013 will be the 150th Anniversary of the Emancipation Proclamation

December 28, 2012

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January 1, 2013 the 150th Anniversary of the Emancipation Proclamation The Emancipation Proclamation was issued by President Abraham Lincoln on January 1, 1863, as mostly a symbolic move, as it only freed enslaved Africans in areas outside of Union control (Confederate States of America) who were in rebellion to the United States of America. In […]

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