1862 The Liberator Anti-Slavery Newspaper with Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation

Date: 1862, December 26  Size (in): 24.875” x 18” Size (cm): 63.2 cm x 45.7 cm Condition: B This is an original and historically important issue of The Liberator, the most influential and important anti-slavery abolitionist newspaper published in the United States, containing the full preliminary text of President Abraham Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation as well as other emancipation related articles and content. This is the December 26, 1862 issue of the newspaper which was published in Boston by William Lloyd Garrison.   This issue was published immediately prior to the Emancipation Proclamation being officially enacted on January 1, 1863 and contains the preliminary text of the proclamation as given by President Lincoln on September 22, 1862 which differs slightly from the final text and reads in part:  …that on the first day of January, in the year of our Lord, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-three, all persons held as slaves within any State or designated part of a State