Emancipation Ordinance of Missouri, An Ordinance Abolishing Slavery in Missouri little rock art when Good Friday's gunshot at

when Good Friday's gunshot at Ford's Theatre transfigured a wartime president into the republic's first secular saint

a lithographic meditation on Washington not as general or president but as private man — the republic

summoned by a reunited nation hungry to anchor its bruised present in the audacity of its founding

that great Irish reflector through which the Earl coaxed cratered shadows into legible grief

Emancipation Ordinance of Missouri, An Ordinance Abolishing Slavery in Missouri little rock art when Good Friday's gunshot atEmancipation Ordinance of Missouri, An Ordinance Abolishing Slavery in Missouri the legislative breath by which a border state, long torn between Union loyalty and slaveholding habit, finally set its bondsmen free. The document carries the dry cadence of statute and the seismic weight of a republic dragging itself, clause by clause, toward its own stated creed. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive