Emancipation Proclamation
January 1, 1863
Summary:
January 1, 1863
Summary:
The Emancipation Proclamation was issued by Abraham Lincoln on September 22nd, 1862, and in doing so the sixteenth president freed each and every one of the slaves in the United States. These men and women would have their rights and freedoms now protected by the American government, and there would be not acts or actions taken to suppress these newly freed people.
This Proclamation would be executed on the first of January in the year 1863, and in doing so the American people would no longer be rebelling against their country and the Union they had disrupted. Lincoln declared that those once under the bonds of slavery would be now and forever free, and their rights and individuality as people would be recognized by all.
Abraham Lincoln saw this as a form of necessary justice granted to them by the Constitution, and felt there ought to be no need for an military action against it.
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