click image for close-up Click here for the text ... The decree also left room for a plan of compensated emancipation. No Confederate states took the offer, and on January 1 Lincoln presented ...

Envisioning Emancipation: Black Americans and the End of Slavery, Prof Krauthamer and her co-author, photography historian Deborah Willis, describe how advances in photography enabled the image of ...

The Banneker-Douglass-Tubman Museum held a renaming ceremony & remembrance of Maryland’s 160th Emancipation Day Friday. (Paul W. Gillespie/Staff) The Banneker-Douglass-Tubman Museum held a ...