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On Jan. 1, 1863 Lincoln issued this edict, & would later call it "the central act of my administration" |
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The governor of Massachusetts wrote, it "is a poor document, but a mighty act... wrong in its delay till January, but grand & sublime after all" |
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On June 19, 1865 black residents of Texas learned of this document issued 2 1/2 years earlier |
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It says that on the 1st of January 1863 "all persons held as slaves... shall be then, then ceforward, and forever free" |
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William Seward objected to its timing, saying "it may be viewed as the last measure of an exhausted government" |
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This 1863 document allowed the Union to recruit black soldiers |
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2016-09-27 |
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Slaves in Washington, D.C. were freed in April 1862, 9 months before this January 1, 1863 manifesto |
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2016-05-18 |
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1863:"All persons held as slaves within any state... shall be then, then ceforward, and forever free" |
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2005-10-21 |
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Issued in final form January 1, 1863, it opened the Armed Services to former slaves |
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