Andrew Johnson famously freed his slaves on Aug. 8, 1863, but it would be another 18 months before Tennessee freed enslaved ...

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An Abraham Lincoln–signed copy of the 13th Amendment, as well as a copy of the Emacipation Proclamation, are heading to ...

Two era-defining documents that ended slavery and reshaped American history are to be auctioned. The Thirteenth Amendment ...

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But the Emancipation Proclamation on Jan. 1, 1863, that freed enslaved people across most of the Confederacy didn’t apply in Tennessee because Johnson urged Lincoln to exclude the state.