EMANCIPATION PROCLAMATION
On the twenty-second day of September in 1862, Abraham Lincoln established the date of January 1, 1863 as the date in which the United States would no longer allow the practice of slavery. This, of course, was that which divided the North and South over the issue of slavery. On the first of January in 1863, Abraham Lincoln repeated this proclamation in an expanded proclamation of the resolve of the nation to stop the rebellion of slave holders and free the slaves. “That on the 1st day of January, A.D. 1863, all persons held as slaves within any State or designated part of a State the people whereof shall then be in rebellion against the United States shall be then, thenceforward, and forever free; and 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…
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