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Lincoln read the first draft of this document to his Cabinet members in Washington D.C. on July 22, 1862. After some changes, he issued the preliminary version on September 22, which specified that the final document would take effect January 1, 1863.

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The Emancipation Proclamation was Abraham Lincoln wrote and issued the Emancipation Proclamation, which consisted of 2 executive orders. The actual Proclamation was never given as a speech.

On January 1, 1863, when the final order of the Proclamation was issued and went into effect, the order was sent via telegraph from the War Department. It was then copied and printed in the Washington Evening Star, the afternoon of January 1, 1863.

There were celebrations at the White House, which the President attended, and parades throughout Washington DC, New York, and Boston.

Historian Harold Holzer wrote in book, "Lincoln: Seen and Unseen" President Lincoln's handling of the proclamation was curiously understated: "Unaware of the power of image-making, Lincoln made the proclamation official in his private office, before just a few witnesses. He made no speech that day, met no delegation of African Americans, visited no slave family, saw no abolitionists, presided over no ceremony."

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