Fremont issued an emancipation proclamation in St. Louis, freeing slaves in Missouri, a bold move that predated President ...

As early as 1849, Abraham Lincoln ... a plan of compensated emancipation. No Confederate states took the offer, and on January 1 Lincoln presented the Emancipation Proclamation.

An Emancipation Day Parade will be held in Charleston on Wednesday to commemorate the decree issued by President Abraham Lincoln that ... Charleston Emancipation Proclamation Association are ...

When President Abraham Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation on Jan. 1, 1863, he called it “the central act of my administration, and the great event of the 19th century.” Yet critics ...