Photomontage Showing President Lincoln with Congressional Supporters of the Proposed Anti-Slavery Constitutional Amendment, 1865
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The Emancipation Proclamation only declared freedom to slaves in rebel states. So in 1864, President Lincoln drafted a U.S. Constitutional Amendment to legally abolish slavery forever. Congress approved this Thirteenth Amendment January 31, 1865, but it took 10 months before the necessary states ratified it so it would become law. Unfortunately, President Lincoln did not live to see that happen.
The Emancipation Proclamation only declared freedom to slaves in rebel states. So in 1864, President Lincoln drafted a U.S. Constitutional Amendment to legally abolish slavery forever. Congress approved this Thirteenth Amendment January 31, 1865, but it took 10 months before the necessary states ratified it so it would become law. Unfortunately, President Lincoln did not live to see that happen.
Artifact
Photographic print
Date Made
1865-1870
Subject Date
1865
Creators
Place of Creation
United States, New York, New York
Creator Notes
Photomontage created by Powell & Company; identifying key printed by J.M. Bradstreet & Son, New York, New York
Keywords
Collection Title
On Exhibit
By Request in the Benson Ford Research Center
Object ID
2000.145.9
Credit
From the Collections of The Henry Ford.
Material
Paper (Fiber product)
Cardboard
Technique
Albumen process
Mounting
Printing (Process)
Color
Black-and-white (Colors)
Dimensions
Height: 13.5 in
Width: 10.5 in
Inscriptions
Printed on key: ANTI-SLAVERY CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT PICTURE / KEY TO POWELL & CO.'S PHOTOGRAPHS OF / ABRAHAM LINCOLN, HANNIBAL HAMLIN, AND OF THE SENATORS AND REPRESENTATIVES / Who voted "AYE" on the Resolution submitting to the Legislatures of the several States a proposition to amend the Constitution of the United States so as to PROHIBIT SLAVERY Printed along bottom edge of photomontage: ENTERED ACCORDING TO ACT OF CONGRESS IN THE YEAR 1865 BY POWELL & CO. IN THE CLERK'S OFFICE IN THE DISTRICT COURT OF THE SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF NEW YORK
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