Stacker describes the events after the Emancipation Proclamation leading to the full abolition of slavery, using records, academic commentary, and reports.

The National Archives explains the significance of the Emancipation Proclamation this way: “It captured the hearts and imagination of millions of Americans and fundamentally transformed the character ...

On the 160th anniversary of the Emancipation Proclamation — Jan. 1, 2023 — President Biden released a statement remarking how in 1863, President Abraham Lincoln “changed America’s destiny ...

Why does Florida celebrate Emancipation Day on May 20th? Neighborhood reporter Ashley Engle explores the state’s unique ...

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 ...

It’s the 160th anniversary of the Emancipation Proclamation, issued on Jan. 1, 1863, by President Abraham Lincoln to declare an end to slavery in the Confederate states at war with the United ...

While not as widely celebrated as Juneteenth — which marks June 19, 1865, as the day the last city in the "rebellious states, ...

About the Archive This is a digitized version of an article from The Times’s print archive ... Jan. 19, 1863. The first of January, 1863, is past, and the President's Proclamation, declaring ...

22, 1862. Dubbed by historians the "preliminary" Emancipation Proclamation, Lincoln's announcement noted that slavery would end in the United States on Jan. 1, 1863 — the date his proclamation ...

This booklet was produced in December 1862 specifically for Union soldiers to read and distribute among African Americans. Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History ...

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 ...