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The Emancipation Proclamation, signed by President Abraham Lincoln, was put into effect on January 1, 1863, but news of the Proclamation and enforcement did not reach Texas until after the end of the Civil War almost two years later.

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Corrine Brown
Age: 77
Born: 1946
Born: November 11
Faculty Member
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U.S. Representative
Jacksonville
Florida
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