The Emancipation Proclamation; January 1, 1863 ... Whereas, on the twenty-second day of September, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty-two, a proclamation was issued by the President of the United States, containing, among other things, the following, to wit:
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The Emancipation Proclamation consists of two executive orders issued by United States President Abraham Lincoln during the American Civil War. The first one, issued September 22, 1862, declared the...
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The decree also left room for a plan of compensated emancipation. No Confederate states took the offer, and on January 1 Lincoln presented the ... The Emancipation Proclamation did not free all slaves in the United States. Rather, it declared free only those slaves living in states not under Union control.
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; The first reading of the Emancipation Proclamation before the cabinet.; Painted by F.B. Carpenter ; engraved by A.H. Ritchie, c1866. (Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division. Reproduction Number: LC-USZ62-2070 DLC)
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July 13 Lincoln read initial draft of the Emancipation Proclamation to Secretaries Seward and Welles ... July 22 Lincoln discussed Draft of the Emancipation Proclamation at a Cabinet Meeting.
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This Emancipation Proclamation actually freed few people. It did not apply to slaves in border states fighting on the Union side; nor did it affect slaves in southern areas already under Union control. Naturally, the states in rebellion did not act on Lincoln's order.
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This proclamation was a Presidential decree issued September 22, 1862 to take effect January 1, 1863, freeing all slaves in those parts of the nation still in rebellion. In July 1862 Lincoln had proposed such a move to his cabinet and read them a preliminary draft ... Emancipation Proclamation Background Information...
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Whereas, on the twentysecond day of September, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty two, a proclamation was issued by the President of the United States, containing, among other things, the following, to wit: ... Related Information; Summary: Abraham Lincoln and Emancipation...
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