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Today we all celebrate Abraham Lincoln as the man that issued the Emancipation Proclamation and ended slavery in the United States. But did the Emancipation Proclamation actually end slavery for
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John WitherspoonJohn Witherspoon was born near Edinburgh, Scotland on February 5, 1723 into a ministerial family. He went to the University of Edinburgh at the age of 13 and got
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