No Confederate states took the offer, and on January 1 Lincoln presented the Emancipation Proclamation. The proclamation declared, "all persons held as slaves within any States, or designated part ...

Stacker describes the events after the Emancipation Proclamation leading to the full abolition of slavery, using records, academic commentary, and reports.

When Washington County residents got their hands on a copy of the Washington Reporter and Tribune days later, a front page headline shouted “Emancipation Proclamation!” A headline below it read, ...

About the Archive This is a digitized version of an article from The Times’s print archive ... European carpers and critics will take of the proclamation. It will not make them a whit more ...

Lincoln then read aloud a 325-word first draft of the Emancipation Proclamation, intended to free slaves in Confederate areas not under United States authority. Salmon P. Chase, secretary of the ...

The National Archives has put a date to last year's announcement that the Emancipation Proclamation will go on permanent display. Starting in 2026, the historic document will find a home next to ...

Broadly speaking, it commemorates the end of slavery in the United States, and that history was made possible in part by the Emancipation ... couple of weeks, a copy of the proclamation is on ...

When President Abraham Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation on Jan. 1, 1863, he called it “the central act of my administration, and the great event of the 19th century.” Yet critics ...

About the Archive This is a digitized version of an article from The Times’s print archive ... a new the Dana-Seward Doctrine that the Proclamation, being a war measure, will end with the ...