Today in history
Subtitle: April 16
Publisher: Library of Congress
Published: 1999
Place of publication: Washington, DC
Language: eng
Format: [electronic resource]
Subjects: Slavery; History; Slaves; Emancipation; African Americans; Civil rights
Other titles: April 16; Abolition in the District of Columbia
Description: Brief discussion of President Lincoln's signing an act abolishing slavery in the District of Columbia on April 16, 1862 with a further discussion of events leading up to the Emancipation Proclamation.
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Illustrated by digitized items from the American Memory historic collections compiled by the National Digital Library Program of the Library of Congress.

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