{"id":17344,"date":"2013-01-02T16:43:08","date_gmt":"2013-01-02T21:43:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/?p=17344"},"modified":"2013-01-02T16:43:08","modified_gmt":"2013-01-02T21:43:08","slug":"emancipation-proclamation-stamp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/2013\/01\/emancipation-proclamation-stamp\/","title":{"rendered":"Emancipation Proclamation Stamp"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/emancipation-proclamation-stamp\/stamp\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-17345\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-17345\" title=\"Stamp\" src=\"http:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/Stamp-190x300.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"190\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/Stamp-190x300.png 190w, https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/Stamp.png 271w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 190px) 100vw, 190px\" \/><\/a>In 2011, the Postal Service began a five-year series commemorating the 150th anniversary of the Civil War. With the 2013 Forever stamp, the U.S. Postal Service commemorates the 150th anniversary of the Emancipation Proclamation, which President Abraham Lincoln signed on January 1, 1863. Lincoln\u2019s proclamation, issued nearly two years into the Civil War, declared that all slaves in the rebel states of the Confederacy \u201care, and henceforward shall be free.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Emancipation Proclamation stamp is being issued as a Forever stamp in self-adhesive sheets of 20. Forever stamps are always equal in value to the current First-Class Mail one-ounce rate.\u00a0 The stamp art uses that powerful statement, \u201cHenceforward Shall Be Free,\u201d on a design evocative of broadsides from the Civil War era.<\/p>\n<p>Lincoln believed the Emancipation Proclamation, potentially applying to several million African-American slaves in the South, was the \u201ccentral act of my administration, and the great event of the nineteenth century.\u201d According to many historians, only the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution of the United States have had as great an impact on human life and liberty for so many.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>One provision of the proclamation authorized enlisting African Americans in the Union army. Some 180,000 blacks subsequently joined the army, and nearly 40,000 gave their lives fighting for freedom.<\/p>\n<p>Art director Antonio Alcal\u00e1 worked with graphic designer Gail Anderson to produce this important commemorative stamp, one of a civil rights set being issued in 2013.<strong><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In 2011, the Postal Service began a five-year series commemorating the 150th anniversary of the Civil War. With the 2013 Forever stamp, the U.S. Postal Service commemorates the 150th anniversary&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[100],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17344"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17344"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17344\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17344"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17344"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17344"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}