Paper Banner, around 1863
date: label: date made
content: ca 1863
name: label: associated person
content: Lincoln, Abraham
notes: label: Description
content: In the summer of 1862, Lincoln drafted an executive order on slavery. Published in September, it declared that, as of January 1, 1863, all persons held in slavery in areas still in rebellion would be “then, thenceforward, and forever free.” Although the Emancipation Proclamation did not directly free any enslaved people in Union-controlled areas, it was widely understood that a Union victory would mean the end of slavery.
label: Description
content: This paper banner celebrates the issuing of the Emancipation Proclamation.
label: Description
content: Gift of Dr. Clara S. Ludlow, 1911
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
topic: label: Subject
content: Slavery
label: Subject
content: African American History
label: related event
content: Emancipation Proclamation (2)
setName: label: See more items in
content: Political History: Political History, Reform Movements Collection
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content: Government, Politics, and Reform
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content: Selections from the Abraham Lincoln Collection
publisher: label: Related Publication
content: Rubenstein, Harry R.. Abraham Lincoln: An Extraordinary Life
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Ludlow
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: PL.012132
label: catalog number
content: 12132
label: accession number
content: 52752
objectType: label: Object Name
content: broadside
label: Object Name
content: banner
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: paper (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: white with black type (overall color)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 6 3/4 in x 24 in; 17.145 cm x 60.96 cm