and enforced the Emancipation Proclamation, which had been issued on Jan. 1, 1863, effectively freeing all remaining enslaved ...
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 ...
During their regular meeting on Tuesday, Jan. 28, 2025, the Antioch City Council voted unanimously to approve a proclamation ...