Remembering this day...

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Remembering this day...

09-22-2012, 11:40 AM,

Rob Wick Offline

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Remembering this day...

"And by virtue of the power, and for the purpose aforesaid, I do order and declare that all persons held as slaves within said designated States, and parts of States, are, and henceforward shall be free...."

Like most things in life, it was far more complicated, but today marks the date in which Abraham Lincoln helped to set slavery on the course to extinction in America.

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Rob

Abraham Lincoln is the only man, dead or alive, with whom I could have spent five years without one hour of boredom.

--Ida M. Tarbell

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