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The Civil War
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Emancipation Proclamation Issued
The document imposed that if the Southern States did not stop their rebellion by January 1st, 1869, then the law would go into effect. -
”First South Carolina Volunteers, United States Army, Near Beaufort, South Carolina, Hearing the Reading of the Emancipation Proclamation,
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"First South Carolina Volunteers, United States Army, Near Beaufort, South Carolina, Hearing the Reading of the Emancipation Proclamation, January 1, 1863"
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"Storming Fort Wagner"
A painting that recreates the 54th Infantry during the Battle of Fort Wagner. -
Slavery Is Abolished
African Americans, now free, went through an identity crisis.