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Illustration of the Emancipation Statue located in Boston, Massachusetts. Sculpted by Thomas Ball, this statue shows Abraham Lincoln with the Emancipation Proclamation in one hand, and the other hand reaching over the head of an African American, a newly freed slave.
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Sheet music for “On Emancipation Day,” a song written by Ohio poet Paul Laurence Dunbar and composer Will Marion Cook.
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Illustration from “The Black Phalanx: A History of the Negro Soldiers of the United States in the Wars of 1775-1812, 1861-’65” by Joseph T. Wilson. Caption reads: “Abraham Lincoln riding through Richmond, April 4th, 1865, after the evacuation of the city by the Confederates.”
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llustration of Major Martin R. Delany while an officer in the Union Army during the Civil War. Printed in “The Black Phalanx: A History of the Negro Soldiers of the United States in the Wars of 1775-1812, 1861-’65” by Joseph T. Wilson. Delany helped recruit African Americans for the draft in Rhode Island, Connecticut and Ohio.
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Members of the 127th Ohio Volunteer Infantry, the first African American regiment recruited in Ohio during the Civil War. The regiment was formed in 1863, and was subsequently designated as the 5th Regiment, United States Colored Troops. The photograph was taken in Delaware, Ohio, on Sandusky Street near the Ft. Delaware Hotel.
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