proclamation
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But without understanding the context of the Emancipation Proclamation, emancipation appears merely tactical—and not what Lincoln understood it to be: a moral reckoning carried out under extraordinary political and personal pressure.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 9, 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
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
The news came two months after the end of the Civil War and about 2 1/2 years after the Emancipation Proclamation.
From Seattle Times • May 20, 2024
Dunmore’s Proclamation shook white Virginia to its core.
From "In the Shadow of Liberty" by Kenneth C. Davis
Vocabulary lists containing proclamation
Martin Luther King Jr.'s "I Have a Dream" Speech (1963)
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The American Civil War
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The Emancipation Proclamation (1862)
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