Who made the emancipation proclamation?

Answer 1

The Emancipation Proclamation was written and issued by President Lincoln. The Proclamation consisted of 2 executive orders. The initial order was issued and went into effect on September 22, 1862, 5 days after the Union had claimed victory in the Battle of Antietam, Maryland.

The final or second part of the Proclamation, was issued and went into effect on January 1, 1863.

Answer 2

Our 16th president Abraham Lincoln did.




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, the final order of the Proclamation was issued, when President Lincoln signed it, at the White House. When it 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."