The Emancipation Proclamation was issued by President Abraham Lincoln on a train headed to free slaves in the unsettled months following the Civil War. The Proclamation declared that all persons held in the American slave trade, not including children of free parents, were to be liberated. It also set forth the long-term plan for freeing […]
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The Emancipation Proclamation was issued by President Lincoln on August 8th, 1863. It is important to remember that the Emancipation Proclamation did not free the slaves from slavery. It ended all slavery throughout the United States. So what does that mean for the future of freedom? The main issue is that the Emancipation Proclamation was […]
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