The decree also left room for a plan of compensated emancipation. No Confederate states took the offer, and on January 1 Lincoln presented the Emancipation Proclamation. The proclamation declared ...
When President Abraham Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation on Jan ... he needed all the political support he could muster to lead the nation through the Civil War. Freeing the slaves ...
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