Lincoln issues the Emancipation Proclamation freeing the slaves in the South. (1 ene 1863 año – 15 dic 1870 año)

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President Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation on January 1, 1863, as the nation approached its third year of bloody civil war. The proclamation declared "that all persons held as slaves" within the rebellious states "are, and henceforward shall be free."