Sharpsburg.
President Lincoln SIGNED and ISSUED the Emancipation Proclomation. I don't believe that history is clear on whether or not he actually SPOKE it.
Freeing the slaves in the Confederacy.Lincoln issued the first Emancipation Proclamation shortly after the Battle of Antietam. It would take effect January 1, 1863.This did not effect any European power from formal recognition. least of all the world's most powerful empire with millions of "Native Peoples " under their control. One can call it forced labor. The British had already given the Confederacy "de facto " recognition as it had a constitution, a government and an army.
Announced soon after the Battle of Antietam (Sept '62), to take effect from January 1st 1863.
It was issued after the Battle of Antietam
Antietam (Sharpsburg)
President Lincoln SIGNED and ISSUED the Emancipation Proclomation. I don't believe that history is clear on whether or not he actually SPOKE it.
The Battle of Antietam was very important to the Emancipation Proclamation because it was the final battle of the Civil War. The treaty was signed at Antietam Courthouse and the Emancipation Proclamation declared slaves free, which was the whole point in the Civil War.
Freeing the slaves in the Confederacy.Lincoln issued the first Emancipation Proclamation shortly after the Battle of Antietam. It would take effect January 1, 1863.This did not effect any European power from formal recognition. least of all the world's most powerful empire with millions of "Native Peoples " under their control. One can call it forced labor. The British had already given the Confederacy "de facto " recognition as it had a constitution, a government and an army.
Announced soon after the Battle of Antietam (Sept '62), to take effect from January 1st 1863.
Lincoln announced the Emancipation Proclamation after the victory of the Battle of Antietam in September of 1862, to take effect on January 1st of 1863 unless the states in rebellion rejoined the Union. The proclamation only effected the states in rebellion.
a major Union military victory
It was issued after the Battle of Antietam
Antietam (Sharpsburg)
The Emancipation Proclamation was signed by Abraham Lincoln January 1, 1863. It had been previously announced and published in September 1862, shortly after the Battle of Antietam.
When Lincoln announced the emancipation proclamation, some of the slaves were free which then aided the union army to end the war.
President Abraham Lincoln he also wrote it himself it was to be issued on January 1st
He freed the slaves in the south and announced the Emancipation Proclamation which prohibted slavery.