emancipation
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Strong came to see that Lincoln’s decision to issue the Emancipation Proclamation would turn Union forces into armies of liberation.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 23, 2026
Soskin’s great-grandmother, Leontine Breaux Allen, was born into slavery in Louisiana and freed by the Emancipation Proclamation.
From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 23, 2025
Abbe, a committed Republican, probably had endorsed the Emancipation Proclamation.
From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 28, 2025
The proclamation recognized slavery as an “inhumane practice” and the Emancipation Proclamation as having “ended its evil stain on American democracy.”
From Slate • Feb. 12, 2025
In January of the new year 1863, the fighting further intensified as Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation, freeing enslaved people in the Confederate states.
From "American Spirits" by Barb Rosenstock
Vocabulary lists containing emancipation
Martin Luther King Jr.'s "I Have a Dream" Speech (1963)
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American History I
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Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s "I've Been to the Mountaintop" (1968)
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