All slaves in areas under rebellion (the south) were free of slavery. The slaves in non rebelling states (the north) were still in slavery
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 emancipation Proclamation doesn't have feeling.....
When Lincoln was president, the Emancipation Proclamation was to free all of the slaves in the Confederacy. :)
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.
Sharpsburg.
a major Union military victory
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.
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 Emancipation Proclomation
Lincoln announced the Proclamation in September 1862, and was assassinated in April 1865 - two and half years.
The emancipation Proclamation doesn't have feeling.....
The Emancipation Proclamation.
When Lincoln was president, the Emancipation Proclamation was to free all of the slaves in the Confederacy. :)
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.