"First Reading of the Emancipation Proclamation of President Lincoln" engraving by Alexander Hay Ritchie (1866), after Francis Bicknell Carpenter (1864) |
The Emancipation
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In a Civil War border town on the eve of Emancipation, the citizens of a nation dividedawait the arrival of the dreaded Proclamation which threatens to change the traditional definition of freedom forever.
Cast Size: 7m
Running Time: 90 minutes