september 22nd 1862
september 22 1862
Abraham Lincoln stopped slavery on September 22nd, 1862
The President of the United States, Abrahma Lincoln on the 22nd of September 1862.
On September 17, 1862, President Lincoln issued the Confederate states an ultimatum. He told them they had 100 days to surrender, and if they didn't, he would proclaim all the slaves in the rebellious states to be free forever.
The Emancipation Proclamation, where Lincoln declared that Southern slaves would be 'thenceforward and forever free'.
Antietam (Sharpsburg) in September 1862.
it was issued on September 22 of 1862, but wasn't affected until January 1 of 1863
Immediately after the Northern win at Antietam in September 1862. (Before that, Lincoln did not have the credibility to issue it.) The terms of the Proclamation would become effective from January 1st 1863.
The Battle of Antietam, September 17th, 1862.
The Emancipation Proclamation
Lincoln announced the Proclamation in September 1862, and was assassinated in April 1865 - two and half years.