LAD #16: Emancipation Proclamation

The Emancipation Proclamation was mad by Abraham Lincoln during the Civil War> it declared all slaves free in the area of the Confederate States of America if they didn’t return to the Union. The two parts were issued of September 20, 1862 and the second January 1, 1863. It was issued as an presidential order, not by congress. As the union armies advanced more slaves were being freed and almost all were freed by the summer of 1865. Border states still held some degree of slavery until it was finally declared the Thirteenth Amendment. Emancipation took place without violence and represented a step towards abolition of slavery.