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A hand holding two very small pamphlets with buff covers titled, "The Proclamation of Emancipation by the President of the United States to Take Effect January 1st, 1863".
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A hand holding two very small pamphlets with buff covers titled, "The Proclamation of Emancipation by the President of the United States to Take Effect January 1st, 1863".
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"Just acquired: two tiny pamphlet printings of the preliminary and final Emancipation Proclamation, published in Boston in December 1862 and January 1863. Made to be distributed freely and to be carried south by Union soldiers and given, in particular, to formerly enslaved men who might enlist."

Happy Juneteenth. Work like you live in the early days of a better nation.

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