Unique Abe Lincoln Emancipation Proclamation
by Heidi De Leeuw
Title
Unique Abe Lincoln Emancipation Proclamation
Artist
Heidi De Leeuw
Medium
Digital Art - Retouched And Restored Antique Poster
Description
Abraham Lincoln and his Emancipation Proclamation.
This uniquely restored reproduction started from the original poster in the Library Of Congress. However, the original has several pieces missing (including the whole top right quarter, including a large part of the Stars and Stripes and the gold decoration).
It took us several days, but we restored the poster, exactly as it must have been in 1888, the year it was published.
A truly beautiful piece of Americana!
Title: Abraham Lincoln and his Emancipation Proclamation / The Strobridge Lith. Co., Cincinnati.
Date Created/Published: Cincinnati , c1888.
Medium: 1 print : chromolithograph.
Summary: Text of Emancipation Proclamation; with two U.S. flags and eagle over head-and-shoulders portrait of Abraham Lincoln and flanked by allegorical figures of Justice and Liberty.
The Emancipation Proclamation is an executive order issued by United States President Abraham Lincoln on January 1, 1863, during the American Civil War using his war powers. It proclaimed the freedom of slaves in the ten states then in rebellion, thus applying to 3.1 million of the 4 million slaves in the U.S. at that time. The Proclamation immediately freed 50,000 slaves, with nearly all the rest (of the 3.1 million) freed as Union armies advanced. The Proclamation did not compensate the owners, did not itself outlaw slavery, and did not make the ex-slaves (called freedmen) citizens.
On September 22, 1862, Lincoln issued a preliminary proclamation that he would order the emancipation of all slaves in any state of the Confederate States of America that did not return to Union control by January 1, 1863. None returned, and the order, signed and issued January 1, 1863, took effect except in locations where the Union had already mostly regained control. The Proclamation made abolition a central goal of the war (in addition to reunion), outraged white Southerners who envisioned a race war, angered some Northern Democrats, energized anti-slavery forces, and weakened forces in Europe that wanted to intervene to help the Confederacy. Slavery was made illegal everywhere in the U.S. by the Thirteenth Amendment, which took effect in December 1865.
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