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Vintage Brass Emancipation Oak Leaf With Acorns - $8 (Baltimore)
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The back reads: THE OAK 383 COLONIAL Va., HAMPTON, Va.
The Emancipation Oak was voted one the of Great Trees of the World by The National Geographic Society.
In 1863, the first Southern reading of Abraham Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation was read at this location to the Black freed slaves in this area.