Lincoln signs the Emancipation Proclamation and it goes into effect January 1, 1863 (22 dez 1862 ano – 22 dez 1862 ano)

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President Lincoln issued the Preliminary Emancipation Proclamation, declaring that as of January 1, 1863 "all persons held as slaves within any State, or designated part of a State, the people whereof shall then be in rebellion against the United States shall be then, thenceforward, and forever free."

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