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How a Miniature Emancipation Proclamation Helped Recruit Black Soldiers During the Civil War Time 1 hr ago Madeline Zehnder / History Today © Alex Wong AFP via Getty Images Page one of the original Emancipation Proclamation is seen Jan. 19, 2003, at the National Archives in Washington, D.C.
Picture the Emancipation Proclamation, the Civil War-era executive order that changed the legal status of enslaved African Americans in secessionist states, and you might imagine a large broadside, perhaps nailed to a tree or held aloft by Abraham Lincoln. But one of the earliest editions of this document took the form of a thin, pocket-sized pamphlet, no bigger than a playing card. Commissioned by John Murray Forbes, a white entrepreneur and abolitionist, this edition was distributed in the South in hopes of recruiting Black men to fight for the Union Army.