click image for close-up Click here for the text of ... of compensated emancipation. No Confederate states took the offer, and on January 1 Lincoln presented the Emancipation Proclamation.

Lincoln then read aloud a 325-word first draft of the Emancipation ... of the Proclamation resides at the Library of Congress. And the pen with which Lincoln signed the final document belongs ...

9-10.5 Analyze how a text uses structure to emphasize ... For each student, print out and make copies of the Emancipation Proclamation transcript (accessible via the PBS LearningMedia website ...

About the Archive This is a digitized version of an article from The Times’s print archive ... like the President's Proclamation of Emancipation in America, are to make these years forever ...

Document Deep Dive: http://j.mp/SUXoTF How the Emancipation Proclamation Came to Be Signed: http://j.mp/12q5SE0 What did it take to pull together a draft of the ...