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The Road to Emancipation

Path to Freedom

Historian and curator of the African American Civil War Museum Hari Jones discusses the legislative steps that made the Emancipation Proclamation possible.

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African Americans and the Early War Effort

Contraband: African Americans

Frederick Douglass

Abraham Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation

Drafting the Emancipation Proclamation

Reactions to the Emancipation Proclamation

“Thenceforward and Forever Free”

Freedmen and the Civil War

The Road to Emancipation

The Citizen Soldier

The Bill of Rights

The United States Constitution

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