Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Photographic Reproduction of the Emancipation Proclamation

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Original – Photograph of a reproduction of the Emancipation Proclamation

Reason: A reproduction of the emancipation proclamation issued by then President Abraham Lincoln. While this was a landmark moment in the abolitionist movement in the United States, it did not in fact free the slaves; instead, the proclamation declared that the federal government of the United States would confiscate all slave in the south for use in the northern war effort - which was within the powers delegated by the United States Constitution to enable the President of the United States to legally seize any property judge to be needed by the government in for a war effort. Slavery as an institution in the United States (excepting sexual slavery and human trafficking) would no be abolished until passage of the 13th Amendment to the United States Constitution, which would outlaw slavery in the United States as a whole. A word of caution: This image is very large; if you've got a slow connection or a computer with limited bandwidth perhaps its better not to view the image here.
Articles in which this image appears: Abraham Lincoln and slavery, Emancipation Proclamation, History of slavery in Maryland
FP category for this image: Wikipedia:Featured pictures/History/USA History
Creator: Text by the late (but still great) Abraham Lincoln, engraving by W. Roberts.

Support as nominator – TomStar81 (Talk) 05:43, 22 September 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Comment - Could use some restoration. — Chris Woodrich (talk) 23:00, 22 September 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Really interesting, everything can be read, but Chris is right. --Tremonist (talk) 13:34, 23 September 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Support -–Jobas (talk) 15:15, 24 September 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Support - quite high educational value and encyclopedic value and historical value. — Cirt (talk) 20:28, 24 September 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Support it's a bit grubby and has a little tear or too but I'm not too bothered about that; if, for example, the corner had been dynamited off and it was smeared with lard it would be different (Diliff, that isn't an image request ;) ), but these little imperfections don't harm the EV much IMO. Belle (talk) 11:29, 25 September 2015 (UTC)[reply]

And why is everyone so down on poor old lard? We used to put it in care packages. Sca (talk) 17:41, 28 September 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Not Promoted --Armbrust ^{The Homunculus} 05:48, 2 October 2015 (UTC)[reply]