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The Emancipation Proclamation consists of two executive orders issued by United States President Abraham Lincoln during the American Civil War. The first one, issued September 22, 1862, declared the freedom of all slaves in any state of the Confederate States of America that did not return to Union control by January 1, 1863. The second order, issued January 1, 1863, named ten specific states where it would apply. From the Lit2Go website. Duration: 5 minutes.

William Lloyd Garrison discusses the far reaching implications of the institution slavery in the United States in this 1854 speech on the Lit2Go website. Duration: 9 minutes.

Frederick Douglass speaks at the unveiling of the Lincoln Monument in Washington, D.C., April 14, 1876. on the Lit2Go website. Duration: 26 minutes 23 seconds.

A map of the eastern United States showing the progress of emancipation from 1777 to 1804. The map is coded to show states and territories with dates of emancipation, including States granting emancipation by State Constitution, State Statutes (gradual), territories granting emancipation by Congressional Ordinance, and the slave holding states in 1800. From the Maps ETC website.

A map of the United States in 1821 showing the states and territories which either accepted or abolished slavery after the Missouri Compromise of 1820. The map is color–coded to show absolutely free states, states undergoing gradual abolition, free by the Ordinance of 1787, territory free by the Missouri Compromise, and slave states and territories. From the Maps ETC website.

A map of the United States during the period of 1850 to 1850 showing the effects of slavery, the slave trade, and the abolition movement on territorial development. From the Maps ETC website.

A map of the Kansas Territory in 1854 showing the area of dispute over the issue of allowing slavery in the territory or abolition as a result of the Kansas–Nebraska Bill of 1854. From the Maps ETC website.

The map shows the states and territories 1850-1865, and notes the stage of emancipation and dates of change, and is coded to show areas of Union States freed by state action (1861–1865), seceded states and counties excepted from the Proclamation of Emancipation, areas freed by the Proclamation of Emancipation (1863), areas freed by the Territorial Act of Congress (1862), areas freed by the Thirteenth Amendment (1865), states that entered the Union as free states (1802–1864), and the original slave states, freed by state action previous to 1861.

A map of the United States in 1860 showing the states and territory boundaries at the time, and is color–coded to show the slave States and distribution of slaves, the free states, and the territories, all open to slavery under the Compromise of 1850 from the Maps ETC website.

U.S. President 1960-1865 and author of the Emancipation Proclamation. Illustration from the ClipArt ETC website.

A view of Congress passing the amendment to the constitution prohibiting slavery. Illustration from the ClipArt ETC website.

Frémont (1813-1890) was an American military officer, explorer, the first candidate of the Republican Party for the office of President of the United States, and the first Presidential candidate of a major party to run on a platform in opposition to slavery. Illustration from the ClipArt ETC website.

Garrison (1805-1879) was a leading abolitionist. Illustration from the ClipArt ETC website.

Wendell Phillips (1811–1884) was an American abolitionist and anti-slavery orator. Illustration from the ClipArt ETC website.

Full view of the Wendell Phillips statue at the Boston Public Garden from the ClipPix ETC website. A close-up view of the same statue.

John Greenleaf Whittier (1807-1892) was an American Quaker poet and advocate of the abolition of slavery in the United States. Illustration from the ClipArt ETC website.

Susan B. Anthony (1820-1906) was a school teacher who became a prominent agitator for the abolition of slavery. Illustration from the ClipArt ETC website.

A gallery of 66 photographs of the Corinth Contraband Camp from the ClipPix ETC website.