Emancipation Proclamation January 1, 1863 1. Did Lincoln free all By the President of the United States of America: African Americans? A Proclamation. a. Whereas, on the twenty-second day of September, in the year 2. Who did Lincoln of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty-two, a proclamation was issued by the President of the United States, containing, among other things, the following, to wit: "That on the first day of January, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty-three, 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; and the Executive Government of the United States, including the military and naval authority thereof, will recognize and maintain the freedom of such persons, and will free? a. do no act or acts to repress such persons, or any of them, in an efforts they may make for their actual freedom.

Emancipation Proclamation January 1, 1863 1. Did Lincoln free all By the President of the United States of America: African Americans? A Proclamation. a. Whereas, on the twenty-second day of September, in the year 2. Who did Lincoln of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty-two, a proclamation was issued by the President of the United States, containing, among other things, the following, to wit: "That on the first day of January, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty-three, 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; and the Executive Government of the United States, including the military and naval authority thereof, will recognize and maintain the freedom of such persons, and will free? a. do no act or acts to repress such persons, or any of them, in an efforts they may make for their actual freedom.