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Tuesday, April 5, 2011

Fort 'Freedom' and the Turning Point of the Emancipation Movement




Emancipation Cartoon from Harpers Weekly
The stumbling evolution of the framing of the Emancipation Proclamation of 1862, beginning with a legal argument over 'contraband'

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/04/03/magazine/mag-03CivilWar-t.html?pagewanted=1&_r=1&ref=magazine