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Emancipation

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Poems dealing with the end of slavery and the Emancipation Proclamation

Contents of this tag:

  1. W.E.B. Du Bois, "Easter-Emancipation 1863-1913"/ "Children of the Moon" (1913)
  2. James Weldon Johnson, "Fifty Years" (1913)
  3. Olivia Ward Bush-Banks, "Unchained 1863" (1914)
  4. Maurice N. Corbett, "Emancipation Proclamation and Arming of Blacks" (1914)
  5. H. Cordelia Ray, "Lincoln" (1909)
  6. Katherine D. Tillman, "A Hymn of Praise" (1902)
  7. Katherine D. Tillman, "The Annual Celebration" (1902)
  8. Aaron Belford Thompson, "Emancipation" (1899)