Emancipation

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Lipman, L. (Louis). “Emancipation Proclamation / del., lith. and print. by L. Lipman, Milwaukee, Wis.”
Lithograph. Madison, Wis.: Published & sold by Martin & Judson, c1864 Feb. 26.
(Library of Congress)
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Readings:

American Yawp Reader, chap. 14, “The Civil War Reader” (click through to five Primary Source documents)


Secondary Source: Ta-Nehisi Coates, “Why Do So Few Blacks Study the Civil War?Atlantic Monthly (February 2012)

Secondary Source: Tony Horwitz, “150 Years of Misunderstanding the Civil War,” Atlantic Monthly (June 19, 2013)

 

 

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