President Abraham Lincoln famously signed the Emancipation Proclamation, declaring “that all persons held as slaves” within the rebellious states “are, and henceforward shall be free.” Knowing it was a pivotal moment in history, Lincoln then declared, “I never, in my life, felt more certain that I was doing right, than I do in signing this paper. If my name ever goes into history it will be for this act, and my whole soul is in it.”Continue Reading...
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