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On
January 1, 1863, Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation,
freeing over three million slaves. Issued as a war measure, Lincoln's act applied to areas of the Confederacy outside Union control, excluding from its purview the border states of Delaware, Maryland, Kentucky and Missouri (slave states that had remained in the Union), Tennessee, and portions of Louisiana and Virginia under Union control. Learn more: Emancipation Proclamation timeline Read a transcription of the Emanicipation Proclamation |
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Printed
copy of the Emancipation Proclamation
1863 Click image to enlarge. Copyright 2002 The Chicago Historical Society |
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