The American Civil War, initiated in 1860 by those intending to use violence to stop abolition of slavery, was in its third year when President Lincoln made his famous Emancipation Proclamation: …all persons held as slaves [within the rebellious states] are, and henceforward shall be free. His phrasing had been developed over many months and […]
from Today in History: 1863 The Emancipation Proclamation
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