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- GLC#
- GLC03839
- Type
- Broadsides, posters & signs
- Date
- 6 August 1863
- Author/Creator
- Saxton, Rufus, 1824-1908
- Title
- To the freedmen in the Department of the South
- Place Written
- Beaufort, South Carolina
- Pagination
- 1 p. : Height: 20.2 cm, Width: 12.7 cm
- Primary time period
- Civil War and Reconstruction, 1861-1877
- Sub-Era
- The American Civil War
Circular declaring: "The President of the United States having appointed the 6th day of August, 1863, as a day of Public Thanksgiving and Praise for the glorious victories of our armies over the enemies of our country... Although you are still in the wilderness, your prospects for liberty were never brighter than now." Refers to the Emancipation Proclamation.
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