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    The Civil War

  • Emancipation Proclamation Issued

    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,

  • "First South Carolina Volunteers, United States Army, Near Beaufort, South Carolina, Hearing the Reading of the Emancipation Proclamation, January 1, 1863"

    "First South Carolina Volunteers, United States Army, Near Beaufort, South Carolina, Hearing the Reading of the Emancipation Proclamation, January 1, 1863"
  • "Storming Fort Wagner"

    "Storming Fort Wagner"
    A painting that recreates the 54th Infantry during the Battle of Fort Wagner.
  • Slavery Is Abolished

    Slavery Is Abolished
    African Americans, now free, went through an identity crisis.