Tuesday, May 28, 2019

SCOTT #4721 FREEDOM FOREVER STAMP

     I do order and declare that all persons held as slaves whitin said designated States and parts of States, are, and henceforward shall be  free....
     With these words in the Emancipation Proclamation, issued on January 1, 1863, President Abraham Lincoln declared more than three million African-American slaves to be free.



                      

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