Published January 01, 2013, 12:01 AM

Watch Nights mark Emancipation Proclamation 150th

WASHINGTON (AP) — As New Year's Day approached 150 years ago, all eyes were on President Abraham Lincoln in expectation of what he warned 100 days earlier would be coming — his final proclamation declaring all slaves in states rebelling against the Union to be “forever free.”

By: Associated Press , The Jamestown Sun

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