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In the Preliminary Emancipation Proclamation, Lincoln said "attention is hereby called" to two 1862 statutes, namely "An Act to Make an Additional Article of War" and the Confiscation Act of 1862, but he didn't mention any statute in the Final Emancipation Proclamation and, in any event, the source of his authority to issue the Preliminary ...
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The Emancipation Proclamation changed that, however, and explicitly redirected the struggle toward ending slavery in the United States. However, the language of the Proclamation was limited in scope.
Lincoln followed up on January 1, 1863 by formally issuing the final version of the Emancipation Proclamation, announcing that all slaves within the rebel states "are, and henceforward shall be free."
On the steps of what is now the Knott House Museum, where the Emancipation Proclamation was first read in the state of Florida, it was read again – 159 years later. General Edward McCook first ...
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The Emancipation Proclamation was issued by United States president Abraham Lincoln on January 1, 1863. A gathering was held in Chicago in 1911 and an event celebrating the 50th anniversary of emancipation was proposed. [2] It was originally planned for 1913 as the "Illinois (National) Half-Century Anniversary of Negro Freedom". [1]
A story provided by the Tippecanoe County Historical Association about the day Lafayette celebrated 50th anniversary of the Emancipation Proclamation.