No Confederate states took the offer, and on January 1 Lincoln presented the Emancipation Proclamation. The proclamation declared, "all persons held as slaves within any States, or designated part ...

has an able article commenting upon the President's proclamation of Emancipation ... the 22d of last September to the 1st of January, 1863, and unbind its sanctions after the latter date.

On January 1st, 1863 President Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation, declaring freedom for all people held as slaves in rebel states. To celebrate the 151st anniversary of that ...

So after the Battle of Antietam, he decided to come up with the Emancipation Proclamation that went into effect that Jan. 1 of 1863.” Library of Congress records show Lincoln issued the ...

U.S. President Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation during the Civil War, freeing enslaved Black people in the Confederate states on Jan. 1 1863 and allowing the newly freed Black ...

The decree, issued on Jan. 1, 1863, declared that all enslaved ... the International African American Museum and the Charleston Emancipation Proclamation Association are hosting a parade at ...

The nation’s longest-running parade made a return in honor of the Emancipation Proclamation, which was declared Jan. 1, 1863 by President Abraham Lincoln. This liberated African Americans from ...

President LINCOLN's proclamation, which we publish this ... he has not the faintest shadow of authority to decree the emancipation of a single slave, either as an "act of justice" or for any ...