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 ...
The colored inhabitants of Norfolk and vicinity celebrated to-day as the first annual anniversary of their freedom, as given them under the President's Emancipation Proclamation. Four regiments of ...
On January 1st, 1863 President Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation, declaring freedom for all people held as slaves in rebel states. This week marks the anniversary of an ...
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