K5101

Emancipation Proclamation

150th Anniversary

Collins Cover Announcement 

Emancipation Proclamation

Many historians feel that only the Declaration of Independence and the Unites States Constitution have had as great an impact on human life and liberty as the Emancipation Proclamation. Abraham Lincoln believed that "the Proclamation was the central act of my administration, and the great event of the Nineteenth Century. "

My individually hand painted cachet shows President Lincoln in the foreground with a scene behind him of laborers harvesting cotton. On January 1, 1863, he declared more than three million AfricanAmerican slaves to be free, and in 1865 the nation adopted the 13th Amendment to the Constitution outlawing slavery forever. The Emancipation Proclamation — K5101 — is now ready at $14.00.