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Emancipation Proclamation still has lessons for us today
160 years ago tomorrow — on Sept. 22, 1862 — President Abraham Lincoln issued his Emancipation Proclamation. Although celebrated by some, it was condemned by others for not doing enough, and still others for doing too much. It was the last resort on a circuitous journey that began when Southern states seceded, continued when border states refused to sell their slaves to the federal government, persisted when freed Black men rejected Lincoln’s appeal for a mass exodus overseas, and was unveiled to optimize the optics for a Union inexplicably losing a war that once seemed entirely winnable. The Proclamation is also emblematic of the limits of presidential power. Lincoln was forced to

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