Today's "Historical Picture of the Day" is actually two, combined into one. President Lincoln, on the right, is most famously known for his "Emancipation Proclamation," proclaiming that all slaves in the southern states during the American Civil War were at last free men. However controversial it was at the time, it set a precedent for the outcome of the war. Tsar Alexander II, on the left, is known as the "Tsar Liberator," liberating the serfs of the Russian Empire from their feudal land-owning masters. It did very little, however, because the lack of another source of livable income did not exist for the serfs, other than working the existing farms for food to survive. Both heads of state held power during the same time, respectively; and, it was a reflection of the underlying machinations brewing among citizens of the world. The old systems of government were being torn down, as people around the world began to have their voice heard.
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