Reactions vary as Abraham Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation is released to the public.
Category: Slavery
The Emancipation Proclamation
President Abraham Lincoln signs the executive order emancipating all slaves in states and parts of states controlled by the Confederacy.
Not a Shadow of Opposition
Abraham Lincoln urges George B. McClellan to move his Federal army back into Virginia, but McClellan is more concerned about Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation.
The Proclamation Aftermath
News of the Emancipation Proclamation spreads throughout the country and does not quite get the reception that Abraham Lincoln had hoped for.
The Preliminary Emancipation Proclamation
Abraham Lincoln issues his decree stating “that all persons held as slaves” within rebellious areas “are, and henceforward shall be free” if those areas do not submit to Federal authority by January 1.
Calling Upon Him to Keep His Word
Following the Federal victory at the Battle of Antietam, Abraham Lincoln decides to follow through with a promise he had made to himself.