The Emancipation Proclamation
Thenceforward, and Forever Free
Abraham Lincoln issued the preliminary Emancipation Proclamation on September 22, 1862. It stipulated that if the Southern states did not cease their rebellion by January 1, 1863, then the Proclamation would go into effect. When the Confederacy did not yield, Lincoln issued the final Emancipation Proclamation on January 1, 1863, declaring “that all persons held as slaves” within the rebellious state “are, and henceforward shall be free.”
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Emancipation Proclamation Primary Source Questions
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General Order No. 3
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Emancipation Proclamation
Historian Hari Jones describes the series of events which led President Abraham Lincoln to issue the Emancipation Proclamation. This video is part of...
More About the Emancipation Proclamation
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- William H. Seward »
- 1862: Antietam and Emancipation »
- Colored Troops Under General Wild, Liberating Slaves in South Carolina »
- The Lincoln Statue, or Emancipation Memorial »
- President Lincoln's Cottage »
- A Brief History of Slavery in the United States »
- Giuseppe Garibaldi to President Lincoln »
- "A Complaint from the London Times" Editorial Letter on the Emancipation Proclamation »
- Abraham Lincoln's Draft of the Emancipation Proclamation »
- "Rejoicing Over the Proclamation" »
- Black Soldiers in the Civil War »
- William Seward to Charles Francis Adams on the Emancipation Proclamation »