On July 22, 1862, Lincoln showed a draft of the preliminary Emancipation Proclamation to his cabinet. It proposed to emancipate the slaves in all rebel areas on January 1, 1863. Secretary of State ...

The meeting soon adjourned, and the preliminary Emancipation Proclamation ... When the moment arrived for signing the Proclamation—on January 1, 1863—Lincoln’s schedule had already been ...

The Emancipation Proclamation, issued on January 1, 1863, specifically called upon freed slaves to enlist in the Union cause. They would be welcomed, the Proclamation declared, "into the armed ...

If Missouri was ready and willing to accept the proposal of compensated emancipation ... of the President's well-intended Proclamation of the 1st of January, are yet constrained to recognize ...

DC was only part of the U.S. to pay off slave owners for freeing enslaves persons they held.

Juneteenth (also referred to as “Freedom Day”) celebrations vary by community. In Seattle, there are a number of ways to ...

This event occurred more than two years after President Abraham Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation, which had formally freed slaves in Confederate states on January 1, 1863. Granger read ...

The Emancipation Proclamation was issued months later on Jan. 1, 1863. It freed all enslaved people in “rebellious” states fighting with the Confederacy but allowed slavery to continue within ...

The Emancipation Proclamation issued by President Abraham Lincoln on January 1, 1863, declared the liberation of African Americans from slavery. A parade and program at the International African ...