Through June 3: 'Emancipation' University Library hosts
exhibition 'Emancipation and Its Legacies' 1:20 p.m., Jan. 25,
2013--The University of Delaware Library has announced a new
exhibition titled “Emancipation and Its Legacies,” which will be
on view in the Lincoln Exhibit Case adjacent to the Special
Collections Exhibition Gallery in the Morris Library through
Monday, June 3. On Jan. 1, 1863, President Abraham Lincoln
issued the Emancipation Proclamation, which declared that slaves
in the Confederate states, with the exception of Tennessee,
southern Louisiana and parts of Virginia, were now free. The
Emancipation Proclamation also announced the Union’s intention
to enlist black soldiers. May 23: Ocean Currents Lecture May 24:
Adelante Prior to the issue of the Emancipation Proclamation
there were a series of laws passed intended to free slaves in
Confederate states, called the Confiscation Acts. These acts
enabled Union soldiers to seize Confederate property in occupied
areas of the South. Slaves who becam