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Collection Reference Number GLC07595
From Archive Folder Unassociated Civil War Documents 1864 
Title Reading the Emancipation Proclamation
Date 1864
Document Type Artwork
Content Description Lithograph of black family reading newspaper at fireside; A. Peters for Lucius Stebbins.
Subjects African American History  Slavery  Emancipation Proclamation  Emancipation  Presidential Speeches and Proclamations  Civil War  Union Forces  
Place written Hartford, Connecticut
Theme The American Civil War; African Americans; Government & Politics; Slavery & Abolition
Sub-collection Papers and Images of the American Civil War
Copyright The Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History
Module Civil War, Reconstruction and the Modern Era: 1860-1945