click image for close-up Click here for the text of ... of compensated emancipation. No Confederate states took the offer, and on January 1 Lincoln presented the Emancipation Proclamation.

9-10.5 Analyze how a text uses structure to emphasize ... For each student, print out and make copies of the Emancipation Proclamation transcript (accessible via the PBS LearningMedia website ...

Lincoln then read aloud a 325-word first draft of the Emancipation ... of the Proclamation resides at the Library of Congress. And the pen with which Lincoln signed the final document belongs ...