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Wilberforce, Lincoln, and the Abolition of Slavery

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Portrait of Abraham Lincoln, Photograph by Alexander Hesler, June 1860. The Gilder Lehrman Collection.

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Abraham Lincoln as he appeared just two years after he mentioned Wilberforce in his Senate campaign speech. Three years later, amidst the harrowing ordeal of the Civil War, he would issue the Emancipation Proclamation.

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