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Reading the Emancipation Proclamation
Rare Books & Special Collections, Hesburgh Libraries
Steel engraving depicting the reaction of a group of slaves to hearing the Emancipation Proclamation read to them by a Union soldier. Below this image is a small portrait of Abraham Lincoln. Drawn by H.W. Herrick and engraved by J.W. Watts.