No Confederate states took the offer, and on January 1 Lincoln presented the Emancipation Proclamation. The proclamation declared, "all persons held as slaves within any States, or designated part ...

For each student, print out and make copies of the Emancipation Proclamation transcript (accessible via the PBS LearningMedia website listed above – see the “For Teachers” section at the ...

Object title: Half-copy ... Proclamation with what was an unknown mixed bag of Type Set it was realised that there would not be enough Type Set to complete the document, and the only option was to ...

A new exhibition—“Abraham Lincoln: His Life in Print”—opened ... only version of the Emancipation Proclamation that Lincoln ...

ST. LOUIS – In 1861, Major General John C. Fremont issued an emancipation proclamation in St. Louis, freeing slaves in Missouri, a bold move that predated President Abraham Lincoln’s more famous ...