The rare document could fetch $8 million.

The event holds special significance on Hilton Head Island. Freed slaves purchased land on Hilton Head after the Civil War, ...

As we celebrate our freedom and honor our heritage, we will continue to redeem the dream and continue building our ...

The Thirteenth Amendment (estimated at $8–12 million) and the Emancipation Proclamation (estimated at $3–5 million) are both ...

Letter writers discuss history of Juneteenth, Holocaust exhibit in Virginia Beach and gubernatorial candidate Abigail ...

An Abraham Lincoln–signed copy of the 13th Amendment, as well as a copy of the Emacipation Proclamation, are heading to ...

On June 19, 1865, two years after President Abraham Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation, Union soldiers rode through ...

Before reciting the 13th amendment, Melvin Hollis, who serves on the board of the Gullah Museum of Hilton Head Island, remarked that the amendment “has a hole in it that’s wide enough to drive ...

Will a Copy of Lincoln’s 13th Amendment Ending Slavery Set an ... The 1863 proclamation originally signed by Lincoln and issued during the Civil War declared that all enslaved people in the ...

The Civil War ended in 1865 with the defeat of the Confederacy and the abolition of slavery through the 13th Amendment.

Juneteenth, the June 19th federal holiday that commemorates the end of America’s slavocracy and celebrates freedom for ...