Signed copy of Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation to be offered at Sotheby’s New York
A signed copy of Abraham Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation of 1863 promising freedom to all slaves in the rebel states will be offered at an upcoming Sotheby’s sale in New York.
The ‘Authorized Edition’ Proclamation is one of 48 sold at $10 each at Civil War ‘sanitary fairs’ to…