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Abe's Last Card:
Not everyone shared Lincoln's views of the proclamation. Some people considered it as a dangerous act of a desperate president willing to foment slave revolts to save his government.
This political cartoon, Abe Lincoln's Last Card of Rouge-et-Noir, by John Tenniel appeared in Punch magazine, October 18, 1862, following Lincoln's announcement of the Emancipation Proclamation. |