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  2. Emancipation Proclamation - Wikipedia

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    The Emancipation Proclamation, officially Proclamation 95, [2][3] was a presidential proclamation and executive order issued by United States President Abraham Lincoln on January 1, 1863, during the American Civil War. The Proclamation had the effect of changing the legal status of more than 3.5 million enslaved African Americans in the ...

  3. End of slavery in the United States - Wikipedia

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    The Emancipation Proclamation was a presidential proclamation and executive order issued by United States President Abraham Lincoln on January 1, 1863, during the Civil War. [24] Lincoln preceded it with the Preliminary Emancipation Proclamation on September 22, 1862, which read:

  4. Thirteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution

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    Though three million Confederate slaves were eventually freed as a result of Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation, their postwar status was uncertain. To ensure that abolition was beyond legal challenge, an amendment to the Constitution to that effect was drafted. On April 8, 1864, the Senate passed an amendment to abolish slavery.

  5. The Emancipation Proclamation in practice: A timeline - AOL

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    The Emancipation Proclamation also stated men of color would be allowed to join the Union army, an invitation they gladly accepted. By the end of the Civil War, nearly 200,000 Black men had fought ...

  6. Today in History: Lincoln issues the Emancipation Proclamation

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    On this day 153 years ago in 1862, President Abraham Lincoln delivered a preliminary Emancipation Proclamation. The document set a date for the emancipation of more than three million slaves ...

  7. On this day in history, September 22, 1862, Abraham Lincoln ...

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    Abraham Lincoln issued the "preliminary" Emancipation Proclamation on this day in history, Sept. 22, 1862, announcing the slaves would be freed on Jan. 1, 1863.

  8. Abolitionism in the United States - Wikipedia

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    In the United States, abolitionism, the movement that sought to end slavery in the country, was active from the colonial era until the American Civil War, the end of which brought about the abolition of American slavery, except as punishment for a crime, through the Thirteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution (ratified 1865).

  9. Kentucky’s role in slaves’ emancipation: ‘Camp Nelson is our ...

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    Linda Blackford: On Juneteenth, remember where Black Kentuckians issued their own Emancipation Proclamation. More than 10,000 either enlisted in the Civil War on the Union’s side or trained at ...