Today in history: Lincoln issues preliminary Emancipation Proclamation
President Lincoln issued a preliminary Emancipation Proclamation on September 22. This document declared that enslaved people in Confederate states would be freed as of January 1 if those states did not rejoin the Union by that date. The proclamation was a significant step toward ending slavery during the Civil War.
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