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Emancipation Nation Watch Party Saturday at VHS

by John Ogle
Tue, 09/18/2012
Dr. Lauranett Lee, Curator of African American History at The Virginia Historica
Dr. Lauranett Lee, Curator of African American History at The Virginia Historical Society.

On Saturday at 1, The Virginia Historical Society will mark the 150th anniversary of the day President Abraham Lincoln issued a preliminary proclamation that ordered the emancipation of slaves that did not return to Union control by January 1st, 1863.

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