The meeting soon adjourned, and the preliminary Emancipation Proclamation ... Yet even when Lincoln acted decisively on September 22, he announced that he would sign the act only 100 days hence ...

Fremont issued an emancipation proclamation in St. Louis, freeing slaves in Missouri, a bold move that predated President ...

WASHINGTON — Each year on April 16, Washington, D.C., celebrates Emancipation Day — the day in 1862 when President Abraham Lincoln signed ... the Emancipation Proclamation took effect and ...

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