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emancipation celebration

[I forgot to publish this yesterday morning. The celebration occurred April 19, 1866. Sorry] 150 years ago today Washington, D.C. celebrated the April 16, 1862 abolition of slavery in the nation’s capital. Thanks to Google and the University of Tennessee … Continue reading

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“practically free by the mere force of circumstances”

James Fisher Robinson, governor of the border State of kentucky, opposed President Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation. The following editorial wonders how this could be. Kentucky has lots of troops in the Union military (in fact, “In January 1863, Governor Robinson proudly … Continue reading

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