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IMAGES:

President Joe Biden signed the Juneteenth National Independence Day Act into law, June 17, 2021 By The White House - P20210608CW-1394, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=106962075

Original handwritten record of General Order No. 3 By US Army - https://www.archives.gov/news/articles/juneteenth-original-document, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=91349489

Slave trader's business in Atlanta, Georgia, 1864 By George N. Barnard - This image is available from the United States Library of Congress's Prints and Photographs divisionunder the digital ID cwpb.03351.This tag does not indicate the copyright status of the attached work. A normal copyright tag is still required. See Commons:Licensing., Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=828936

1864 reproduction of the Emancipation Proclamation from the Library of Congress By Engraving by W. Roberts, restoration by Bammesk - This image is available from the United States Library of Congress's Prints and Photographs divisionunder the digital ID pga.04067.This tag does not indicate the copyright status of the attached work. A normal copyright tag is still required. See Commons:Licensing., Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=87832446

The five-page original document, held in the National Archives Building By Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 - http://www.wdl.org/media/2714/service/thumbnail/6000x6000/1/1.jpgGallery: http://www.wdl.org/en/item/2714/, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=31578413

A photograph of two children who likely, were recently emancipated – circa 1870 By Unknown. Some believe it was created by the photography studio of Mathew Brady, a famous 19th-century photographer, and taken by one of Brady's apprentices - Timothy O'Sullivan. Others say it is by J. N. Wilson, as the stereogram in the New York Public Library is marked. - AP Photo/Courtesy of Keya Morgan, LincolnImages.com, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=10654654

Gordon Granger, photo taken during American Civil War By Mathew Benjamin Brady - This image is available from the United States Library of Congress's Prints and Photographs divisionunder the digital ID cwpbh.03170.This tag does not indicate the copyright status of the attached work. A normal copyright tag is still required. See Commons:Licensing., Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=1355399

Winslow Homer 1876 – "A Visit from the Old Mistress" depicts a tense meeting between a group of newly freed slaves and their former slaveholder By Winslow Homer - This file was provided to Wikimedia Commons by the Smithsonian American Art Museum as part of a cooperation project., Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=23932927

Lincoln in his late 30s as a member of the U.S. House of Representatives. Photo taken by one of Lincoln's law students around 1846. By Attributed to Nicholas H. Shepherd, based on the recollections of Gibson W. Harris, a law student in Lincoln's office from 1845 to 1847. - Library of Congress, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=25071089

Lincoln in February 1865, two months before his death By Alexander Gardner - Library of Congress, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=25238743

General Order No. 3, June 19, 1865 By General Graham Granger, b 1821, d 1876 - https://www.onthisday.com/photos/juneteenth, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=91347553

Ashton Villa By Jim Evans - Own work, CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=19883099

Group of African Americans waiting for midnight on New Year's Eve 1862 By Unknown author - https://cdn.britannica.com/92/213392-050-960FC1CA/Carte-de-visite-Watch-Meeting-December-31-1862-Wating-for-the-Hour-African-Americans-Emancipation-Proclamation.jpg, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=100909372

Women's suffragists parade in New York City in 1917, carrying placards with the signatures of more than a million women By Unknown author - The New York Times photo archive, via their online store, here, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=2948583

Henry Louis Stephens (c. 1863) untitled watercolor of a black man reading a newspaper with headline "Presidential Proclamation/Slavery" By Henry Louis Stephens (1824–1882) - This image is available from the United States Library of Congress's Prints and Photographs divisionunder the digital ID cph.3g02442.This tag does not indicate the copyright status of the attached work. A normal copyright tag is still required. See Commons:Licensing., Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=5336802

Slave sale, Charleston, 1856 By unknown (after Eyre Crowe) - British Museum [1], Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=14649480

Freed slaves on J. J. Smith's cotton plantation on the Sea Islands near Beaufort, South Carolina, photographed by Timothy O'Sullivan standing before their quarters in 1862 By Timothy H. O'Sullivan - KwEsI448voy25Q at Google Cultural Institute maximum zoom level, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=21992734

A company of 4th United States Colored Troops By Unknown author - http://www.toptenthailand.com/topten/detail/20131119114815858, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=34022052 Band performing in Texas for Emancipation Day, 1900 By Mrs. Charles Stephenson (Grace Murray) - The Portal to Texas History, University of North Texas Libraries, [texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth124054/m1/1/?q=emancipation], Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=54003542

Anaconda Plan, Civil War By J.B. Elliott - The Library of Congress/American Memory (Digital ID: g3701s cw0011000) [1], Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=984400

A 12-year-old Western Union messenger boy in Tampa, Florida, 1911 By Lewis Hine - This image is available from the United States Library of Congress's Prints and Photographs divisionunder the digital ID nclc.03557.This tag does not indicate the copyright status of the attached work. A normal copyright tag is still required. See Commons:Licensing., Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=5955908

Navy Yard, Norfolk Va By Gardner, James, Photographer (NARA record: 2904846) - U.S. National Archives and Records Administration, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=16101225

Fort Delaware, painted circa 1870 by Seth Eastman By Seth Eastman - https://www.senate.gov/art-artifacts/fine-art/paintings/33_00012.htm, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=1645371#

Emancipated Slaves Brought from Louisiana by Colonel George H. Banks By Creator:Myron H. Kimball - This file was donated to Wikimedia Commons as part of a project by the Metropolitan Museum of Art. See the Image and Data Resources Open Access Policy, CC0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=60494356

The Beach Hotel catered to vacationers until a fire in 1898 By Unknown author - Scanned from, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=724473

Officers of the 3rd Massachusetts Heavy Artillery Regiment, Washington, D.C. (1865) By Unknown photographer - This image is available from the United States Library of Congress's Prints and Photographs divisionunder the digital ID cwpb.01342.This tag does not indicate the copyright status of the attached work. A normal copyright tag is still required. See Commons:Licensing., Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=50732609

Simon Legree and Uncle Tom: a scene from Uncle Tom's Cabin (1852), an influential abolitionist novel By From a magic lantern series of about 1885 of Uncle Tom's Cabin. Via page 29, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=1976095

1876 cartoon illustrating opposition to black suffrage By Frost - https://web.archive.org/web/20150808014910/http://dcc.newberry.org/system/artifacts/679/original/Harpers-Weekly-Of-Course-He-Wants-to_Vote-p-848.jpg, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=42169150

A former slave holding a horn with which slaves were called, colorized photograph By Julius Jääskeläinen - A former slave holding a horn with which slaves were called. Near Marshall, Texas, USA 1939., CC BY 2.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=91532384

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