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Lesson 2 of 8·Jews and the Civil War

Lincoln, Esther, and the Emancipation Proclamation

In 1862, President Lincoln was visited by a group of Christian clergymen, who delivered an earnest sermon citing the Book of Esther to urge the president to free the slaves. Several days later, Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation. Is there a connection between these two episodes?

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