As early as 1849, Abraham Lincoln ... a plan of compensated emancipation. No Confederate states took the offer, and on January 1 Lincoln presented the Emancipation Proclamation.

On Jan. 1, 1863, Lincoln declared that all enslaved people in states rebelling against the Union “are, and henceforward shall be free.” He issued the preliminary Emancipation Proclamation in ...

On November 6, 1860 Abraham Lincoln was elected ... On July 22, 1862, Lincoln showed a draft of the preliminary Emancipation Proclamation to his cabinet. It proposed to emancipate the slaves ...

The item in question is the pen Abraham Lincoln used 150 years ago to sign the Emancipation Proclamation. It’s in a small exhibition at the Massachusetts Historical Society, “Forever Free ...

For all his modesty and wartime preoccupation, the 16th president was one of the most photographed men of his time, with a ...

Exactly one hundred years after Abraham Lincoln wrote the Emancipation Proclamation for them ... initiated the pending bill and at this writing, the Johnson administration has fought off weakening ...

In addition to being president, Abraham Lincoln was the post-master of ... In September 1862, Lincoln announced his preliminary emancipation proclamation. The President warned that if the rebellion ...

Abraham Lincoln made a stopover at Cincinnati on his way to his inauguration in 1861, just as the nation was falling apart.

The nation’s longest-running parade made a return in honor of the Emancipation Proclamation, which was declared Jan. 1, 1863 by President Abraham Lincoln. This liberated African Americans from ...

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