Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation: The End of Slavery in America Section-General Robert E. Lee in the vicinity of Winchester

in the vicinity of Winchester and Berryville

by Patricia Rich

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Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation: The End of Slavery in America Section-General Robert E. Lee in the vicinity of WinchesterI do order and declare that all persons held as slaves are, and henceforward shall be free other words in American history changed the lives of so many Americans as this plain, blunt declaration from Abraham Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation. But no other words in American history have been so often passed over or held up to greater suspicion. Born in the struggle of Lincoln's determination to set slavery on the path to destruction, it has remained