...control — and the listing was left blank until Lincoln had the final tally from the War Department — I do order, and declare, that all persons held as...said designated States, and parts of States, are, and henceforwardforever shall be free. There was a slight shift in wording at this crucial point from the...

...York, Princess Ann and Norfolk, including the cities of Norfolk and Portsmouth, and which excepted parts are, for the present, left precisely as if this...proclamation were not issued. And by virtue of the pdwet and for the pnrpose aforesaid, I do order and declare that all persons held as slaves within...

...York, Princess Ann and Norfolk, including the cities of Norfolk and 15? Portsmouth, and which excepted parts, are for the present, left precisely as if this proclamation were not issued. And I hereby enjoin upon the people so declared to be free, to abstain from all violence unless in necessary...

...York, Princess Ann, and Norfolk, including the cities of Norfolk and Portsmouth, and which excepted parts are, for the present, left precisely as if this...; and that the Executive Government of the United States, including the military and naval authorities thereof, will recognize and maintain the freedom...

...York, Princess Anne, and Norfolk, including the cities of Norfolk and Portsmouth) , and which excepted parts are for the present left precisely as if this...free; and that the Executive Government of the United States, including the military and naval authorities thereof, will recognize and maintain the freedom...

...York, Princess Ann, and Norfolk, including the cities of Norfolk and Portsmouth), and which excepted parts, are for the present, left precisely as if this...free; and that the Executive government of the United States, including the military and naval authorities thereof, will recognize and maintain the freedom...

...York, Princess Anne, and Norfolk, including the cities of Norfolk and Portsmouth), and which excepted parts are for the present left precisely as if this...free; and that the Executive Government of the United States, including the military and naval authorities thereof, will recognize and maintain the freedom...

...York, Princess Ann, and Norfolk, including the cities of Norfolk and Portsmouth), and which excepted parts, are for the present, left precisely as if this...free; and that the Executive government of the United States, including the military and naval authorities thereof, will recognize and maintain the freedom...

...Proclamation, declaring that as of January I, 1863, slaves helä in rebel states were free. It read, in part: I do order and declare that all persons held as slaves...free; and that the Executive government of the United States, including the military and naval authorities thereof, will recognize and maintain the freedom...

...York, Princess Ann, and Norfolk, including the cities of Norfolk and Portsmouth), and which excepted parts are for the present left precisely as if this...the purpose aforesaid, I do order and declare that all_persons held as slaves within said designated States and parts of States are, and henceforward...