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 ...

Explain what a proclamation is and outline what the Emancipation Proclamation promised ... A collection of shareable, downloadable posters created for The African Americans: Many Rivers to Cross ...

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