In September of 1862 ... room for a plan of compensated emancipation. No Confederate states took the offer, and on January 1 Lincoln presented the Emancipation Proclamation.
He issued the preliminary Emancipation Proclamation in churches on Sept. 22, 1862. The National Museum of African American History and Culture said that this turned the Civil War into a war to end ...
On November 6, 1860 Abraham Lincoln was elected President of the United States -- an event that outraged southern states. The Republican party had run on an anti-slavery platform, and many ...