The Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum in Springfield will celebrate freedom this month with an array of special Juneteenth events, including a free exhibition of a copy of the Emancipation Proclamation signed by Lincoln himself. Starting as a local holiday in Galveston, Texas, Juneteenth has grown into a national celebration of slavery’s end in America. A key moment in the march toward freedom was Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation, which ordered an end to enslavement for millions of Americans.

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