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Paths to Freedom Field Trip Program

This field trip experience at the David M. Rubenstein National Center for White House History at Decatur House invites students to explore notions of bondage and freedom, and to trace President Abraham Lincoln's steps as he considered emancipation and its alternatives. While participating in a costumed reenactment, students recreate the events surrounding the signing of the Emancipation Proclamation. Each student researches and acts the part of an historic character from the 1860s.