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1856 and your gonna start saying African Americans and stop being so blunt. The question really has no valid answer; however, Lincoln wrote the Emancipation Proclamation on January 1, 1863, during the American Civil War, declaring the following: slaves within any State, or designated part of a State ... then ... in rebellion, ... shall be then, thenceforward, and forever free.

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