Emancipation Proclamation 1896 Frame Style:Ebony Frame Prominent Colored People — a

Prominent Colored People — a composite portrait gallery of African American leadership assembled in the long decades after Emancipation

General Zachary Taylor Rough and Ready 1846

The linen postcards lean autumnal — maples flaring red along dirt roads that wind toward Camel's Hump and the Northeast Kingdom

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Emancipation Proclamation 1896 Frame Style:Ebony Frame Prominent Colored People — aEmancipation Proclamation 1896 a late century commemorative reprinting of Lincoln's 1863 decree, issued thirty three years on as the Republic kept rehearsing the document like scripture, its clauses set in dignified type for parlors that wanted the war's meaning kept close. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National Archives, regional historical societies, and the