The Emancipation Proclamation
Abraham Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation into act on January 1st, 1863. It freed all the slaves in the states in rebellion.
Important Quotes from the Emancipation Proclamation
By the President of the United States of America:
A Proclamation.
"The people whereof shall then be in rebellion against the United States, shall be then, thenceforward, and forever free"
"The Executive Government of the United States, including the military and naval authority thereof, will recognize and maintain the freedom of such persons, and will do no act or acts to repress such persons, or any of them, in any efforts they may make for their actual freedom."
"Now, therefore I, Abraham Lincoln, President of the United States, by virtue of the power in me vested as Commander-in-Chief, of the Army and Navy of the United States in time of actual armed rebellion against the authority and government of the United States, and as a fit and necessary war measure for suppressing said rebellion"
And by virtue of the power, and for the purpose aforesaid, I do order and declare that all persons held as slaves within said designated States, and parts of States, are, and henceforward shall be free"
President: ABRAHAM LINCOLN
WILLIAM H. SEWARD, Secretary of State.
By the President of the United States of America:
A Proclamation.
"The people whereof shall then be in rebellion against the United States, shall be then, thenceforward, and forever free"
"The Executive Government of the United States, including the military and naval authority thereof, will recognize and maintain the freedom of such persons, and will do no act or acts to repress such persons, or any of them, in any efforts they may make for their actual freedom."
"Now, therefore I, Abraham Lincoln, President of the United States, by virtue of the power in me vested as Commander-in-Chief, of the Army and Navy of the United States in time of actual armed rebellion against the authority and government of the United States, and as a fit and necessary war measure for suppressing said rebellion"
And by virtue of the power, and for the purpose aforesaid, I do order and declare that all persons held as slaves within said designated States, and parts of States, are, and henceforward shall be free"
President: ABRAHAM LINCOLN
WILLIAM H. SEWARD, Secretary of State.
The Emancipation Proclamation