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 ...

Lincoln then read aloud a 325-word first draft of the Emancipation Proclamation, intended to free slaves in Confederate areas not under United States authority. Salmon P. Chase, secretary of the ...

He quotes a letter that ... from the Emancipation Proclamation? The DC Compensated Emancipation Act of 1862 was passed by Congress and signed by President Lincoln. It ended slavery in the District ...