ID: 901000743 Page link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/ia/901000743	Record Type: Literature

	Emancipation Proclamation (edict, United States, Lincoln, 1863)

Note: Edict issued by U.S. President Abraham Lincoln on 1 January 1863, that freed the slaves of the Confederate states in rebellion against the Union.

Display Date: 1 January 1863

Names:

	Emancipation Proclamation (edict, United States, Lincoln, 1863) (preferred,English-P,D,P)

Hierarchical Position:

		Literature and Performing Arts (P)
		....<Named written and performed works> (P)
		........<Literary works: Legal, Political, Governmental documents> (P)
		............Emancipation Proclamation (edict, United States, Lincoln, 1863) (P)

Other Relationships:

	role/characteristic is .... edict
	.....(declaratory documents, documents by function, document genres, information forms (objects), Information Forms (hierarchy name), Visual and Verbal Communication (hierarchy name)) (AAT)

	affiliated/associated with .... Abraham Lincoln (American president, 1809-1865)
	.....(Non-Artists) (ULAN)

	role/characteristic is .... law (document)
	.....(documents by function, document genres, information forms (objects), Information Forms (hierarchy name), Visual and Verbal Communication (hierarchy name)) (AAT)

Sources:

	Emancipation Proclamation (edict, United States, Lincoln, 1863)
	................Library of Congress Authorities online (2002-) sj 98007360
	................Getty Research Institute Special Collections Finding Aids (2005-)

Iconography Record Sources:

	................ Source for image https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emancipation_Proclamation#/media/File:Emancipation_Proclamation_WDL2714.jpg