F.B. Carpenter, The First Reading of the Emancipation Proclamation Before the Cabinet (c. 1866)

F.B Carpenter, The First Reading of the Emancipation Proclamation Before the Cabinet (c. 1866). Library of Congress, Washington. Reproduced from Abraham Lincoln, State Papers 1861-1865, Current Literature Publishing Co., 1907, frontispiece. Lincoln sits with his cabinet as a framed drawing of George Washington looks on in the background. Notably, the slave owner Washington is here linked with Lincoln, while no African Americans are present.

F.B. Carpenter, The First Reading of the Emancipation Proclamation Before the Cabinet (c. 1866)

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