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History of the Emancipation Proclamation

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Bruce Bustard, senior exhibits curator, at the National Archives and Records Administration in Washington, D.C., discusses the history of the Emancipation Proclamation, Abraham Lincoln’s gradual evolution of thought about issuing the Proclamation, and the pursuit of a 13th Amendment to abolish slavery.

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