By the president of the United States
Subtitle: a proclamation
Contributors: Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865; Forbes, John Murray, 1813-1898
Publisher: J. M. Forbes
Published: 1863
Place of publication: Boston
Language: eng
Subjects: Slaves; Emancipation
Other titles: Proclamation of emancipation
Notes: Caption title.

Cover title: The proclamation of emancipation, by the president of the United States, to take effect January 1st, 1863.

First and only contemporary printing of the Emancipation Proclamation in book form.

Issued by Boston industrialist and abolitionist John Murray Forbes, for distribution to blacks by Union troops.--See Letters and recollections of John Murray Forbes (Boston, 1899).

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