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Les Negres affranchis colportant le decret d'affranchissement du president Lincoln (Freed Negroes celebrating President Lincoln's decree of emancipation), engraving from Le Monde Illustre, March 21, 1863
Copyright 2002 The Chicago Historical Society
 
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