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Lincoln's Proclamation for a national Thanksgiving...
Lincoln's Proclamation for a national Thanksgiving...
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November 04, 1864
THE LIBERATOR, Boston, Nov. 4, 1864
* Rare anti-slavery title
* President Abraham Lincoln
* Day of Thanksgiving proclamation
* For freedom of slaves - Civil War era
This is the famous anti-slavery newspaper by William Lloyd Garrison, featuring a terrific masthead with 3 vignettes including a slave auction and slaves being emancipated.
Page 3 contains: "Proclamation For A National Thanksgiving" "By the President of the United States of America, A PROCLAMATION" which is signed in type: Abraham Lincoln. It was this Proclamation which officially declared Thanksgiving as an annual holiday to be celebrated the fourth Thursday of November.
This is followed by: "Tribute To President Lincoln".
Other content includes: "Sentiments of Abraham Lincoln on Slavery" which takes 1 1/2 columns; "The Presidential Contest In America" "Jeff Davis at Mason" and much more.
Four pages, never bound nor trimmed, minor wear at some folds, some foxing to the top quadrant.
Category: Yankee
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