Events with tag - Presidential Order

January 1, 1863

Emancipation Proclamation

President Abraham Lincoln's executive order that declared freedom for all enslaved people in Confederate states during the American Civil War, transforming the conflict into a fight for human freedom and enabling Black Americans to join the Union military forces.

January 1, 1863

Emancipation Proclamation

President Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation, a landmark executive order that declared all slaves in Confederate states to be free. This historic document transformed the Civil War from a conflict over states' rights to a fight for human freedom.