After the Emancipation Proclamation was declared, Douglass finally had the go-ahead to begin recruiting the first official regiments of Black soldiers into the Union Army, including his two sons.

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To mark Juneteenth, NPR staff members read the Emancipation Proclamation. Juneteenth — the celebration to commemorate the end of slavery in the... To Celebrate Juneteenth, Listen To A Reading Of The ...

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Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. On the steps of what is now the Knott House Museum, where the Emancipation Proclamation was first read in the state of Florida, it ...

The Emancipation Proclamation and the 19th Amendment have been added to the Archives’s rotunda, the first permanent changes there in nearly 75 years. By Jennifer Schuessler In “Born Equal,” Akhil Reed ...

Billionaire hedge funder and art collector Kenneth Griffin has revealed that he was the buyer of record-breaking copies of the Emancipation Proclamation and the Thirteenth Amendment, both signed by ...

Stacker describes the events after the Emancipation Proclamation leading to the full abolition of slavery, using records, academic commentary, and reports. – VCG Wilson/Corbis via Getty Images In many ...

Today, the federal government observes Juneteenth. The holiday marks the arrival of U.S. Army troops in Galveston, Texas, on June 19, 1865. The troops told some of the last enslaved Americans that ...

The United States has a new national holiday to celebrate: Juneteenth, marking the day in 1865 — in the aftermath of the Civil War — when U.S. Army troops landed in Galveston, Texas, and informed some ...

A print based on David Gilmour Blythe’s painting of Lincoln writing the Emancipation Proclamation. In many Americans’ recollections, the Emancipation Proclamation was a landmark piece of legislation ...