President Abraham Lincoln does the first reading of a draft of the Emancipation Proclamation in 1864 with his cabinet.

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President Abraham Lincoln does the first reading of a draft of the Emancipation Proclamation in 1864 with his cabinet: Edwin M. Stanton (secretary of war), Salmon P. Chase (secretary of treasury), Lincoln, Gideon Welles (secretary of navy), Caleb B. Smith (secretary of interior), William H. Seward (secretary of state), Montgomery Blair (postmaster general), Edward Bates (attorney general). The illustration dates to 1876.

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