Tag: Emancipation Celebration
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RIAS-NAF Emancipation Webinar – 160 Years Since Emancipation (Netherlands and the USA)
The webinar was organized on October 12, 2023, with the occasion of the 160 anniversary of the Emancipation in the Netherlands and the Emancipation Proclamation in the US, by Dr. Damian Alan Pargas – Professor of American history at Leiden University, as well as the Director of the Roosevelt Institute for the American Studies in…
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Abraham Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation: Three Perspectives
One of the most important moments in the history of America is the day of January 1, 1863, the day when President Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation, first issued on September 22, 1862, became effective. This Proclamation freed all slaves in the Southern/ Confederate States that were fighting against the North during the American Civil War (April…
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