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Kenneth Griffin, the billionaire art collector and hedge fund founder, purchased the document that abolished slavery, as well ...

Griffin paid a record $13.7M for the 13th Amendment and $4.4 million for the Emancipation Proclamation. Both documents were ...

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Billionaire hedge funder Kenneth Griffin was the buyer of record-breaking copies of the 13th Amendment and the Emancipation ...

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The hedge-fund billionaire also paid a record $43.2 million for a copy of the U.S. Constitution four years ago.

Billionaire Art Collector Ken Griffin Buys Lincoln's Handwritten Copy of 13th Amendment for $13.7 M. Billionaire Kenneth C.

In July 2024, Griffin purchased a late Jurassic-era stegosaurus skeleton for a record-setting $44.6 million. Griffin has ...

Ken Griffin bought an Abraham Lincoln–signed copy of the 13th Amendment, for $13.7 million, and the Emancipation Proclamation ...

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Originally issued by Lincoln during the Civil War in 1863, the proclamation declared enslaved people in the Confederate ...