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The Religious Meaning of the Emancipation Proclamation
March 17, 2020
W.E.B. Dubois observed in his history of the Reconstruction era that news of the signing of the Emancipation Proclamation resulted in exuberant expressions of religious feelings among African Americans in the South. Beginning on January 1, 1863, with the signing of the Emancipation Proclamation, Union Army camps became both bases of military operations and havens for thousands of jubilant runaways.
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