Reading the Emancipation Proclamation

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1864

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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.

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Creator: Herrick, Henry Walker
Date: 1864
Publisher: [publisher not identified], [Connecticut?]
Material Type: Graphic
Genre/Physical Characteristic: 1 print
Dimensions: 45 x 53 cm
Language: English
Subject: United States. -- President (1861-1865 : Lincoln). -- Emancipation Proclamation.; Prints.; Lincoln, Abraham, -- 1809-1865 -- Portraits; Enslaved persons -- Emancipation -- United States -- Pictorial works; 1861-1865

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Identifier: PRINT-1864-01-F2
Campus Location: Rare Books & Special Collections, Hesburgh Libraries
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