On this day in history, President Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation. Tesla Cybertruck explosion in Las ...

As early as 1849, Abraham Lincoln ... a plan of compensated emancipation. No Confederate states took the offer, and on January 1 Lincoln presented the Emancipation Proclamation.

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On November 6, 1860 Abraham Lincoln was elected ... On July 22, 1862, Lincoln showed a draft of the preliminary Emancipation Proclamation to his cabinet. It proposed to emancipate the slaves ...

In addition to being president, Abraham Lincoln was the post-master of New Salem; he also offered services as a wood chopper, county deputy surveyor, and lawyer. Abraham Lincoln was born in a one-room ...