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Library of Congress1926

Image 22 of The Washington times (Washington [D.C.]), January 30, 1926

22 Announcements fhQna Ctaoeifiod Ada to Main 520 LOST AND FOUND 1 CAMEO PlNLarge vicinity Iansburgh or Ktnnr Monday reward Mrs Thacker Potomac 2219 COLLIE white face four white paws white tip on tail 3 months old named Carlo Notify Houston 1744 8 St N W North 2614 Reward FINDERS If you find anything and cannot locate the owner through the Loot and Found ads in thia newspaper call at Room 422 Hearst Bldg and through the Lost and Found Index which contains a complete list of ail lost articles that have been advertised In this newspaper in the past two 8 830 LOST from pocketbook at Mass j aehusetts Ave entrance Naval Ob servatory Sat morning West 1434 Mr Willis WRIST WATCHLadies with black ribbon Navy Bldgfront of Shipping Board entrance Reward for return Columbia 4708 LOSERS When you advertise a loot article in the Lost and Found classi fication of this newspaper your adver tisement receives the benefit of FREE listing in the Lost and Found Index maintained by the Want Ad Service Bureau of this newspaper Tour ad vertisement is filed in this index for a period of two 2 months Such SERVICE facilitates the recovery of

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Library of Congress1862

Emancipation Proclamation.

Initially, the Civil War between the North and the South was fought by the North to prevent the secession of the South and preserve the Union. Ending slavery was not a goal. That changed on September 22, 1862, when President Abraham Lincoln issued his Preliminary Emancipation Proclamation, which stated that slaves in those states or parts of states still in rebellion as of January 1, 1863, would be free. One hundred days later Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation declaring "that all persons held as slaves" within the rebellious areas "are, and henceforward shall be, free." Lincoln's bold step was a military measure by which he hoped to inspire the slaves in the Confederacy to support the Union cause. Because it was a military measure, the proclamation was limited in many ways. It applied only to states that had seceded from the Union, and left slavery untouched in the border states. Although the Emancipation Proclamation did not end slavery, it did fundamentally transform the character of the war. Henceforth, every advance of Federal troops expanded the domain of freedom. Moreover, the proclamation announced the acceptance of black men into the Union Army and Navy. By the end of the war, almost 200,000 black soldiers and sailors had fought for the Union and their own freedom.

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