click image for close ... room for a plan of compensated emancipation. No Confederate states took the offer, and on January 1 Lincoln presented the Emancipation Proclamation.

Though President Lincoln had declared all slaves free with the Emancipation Proclamation ... The striking image galvanized the abolitionist movement, as people were faced with the stark ...

The National Archives has put a date to last year's announcement that the Emancipation Proclamation will go on permanent display. Starting in 2026, the historic document will find a home next to ...

In March 1863, two months after President Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation ... The widely circulated image, variably referred to as “Whipped Peter” or “The Scourged Back ...

About the Archive This is a digitized version of an article from The Times’s print archive ... week a sketch of the history of the Emancipation Proclamation, as given to him by Mr. LINCOLN ...

Juneteenth falls on June 19th and is a day to celebrate the end of slavery in the United States. It's an important day for ...

About the Archive This is a digitized version of an article from The Times’s print archive ... a new the Dana-Seward Doctrine that the Proclamation, being a war measure, will end with the ...