 | History - 2004 - 556 pages
...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 there be in rebellion against the United States, shall be then, thenceforth, and forever free; and... | |
 | Kamari Maxine Clarke - History - 2004 - 394 pages
...edict by President Abraham Lincoln, declared the freedom of southern slaves, stating, "All persons held as slaves within any State or designated part of a State . . . shall be then, thenceforward, and forever free." The North won the war and slavery was outlawed.... | |
 | Ilene Stone, Suzanna M. Grenz - Biography & Autobiography - 2005 - 145 pages
...if they stopped fighting. The document said: "That on the 1st day of January, AD 1863, all persons held as slaves within any State or designated part...States shall be then, thenceforward, and forever free." In this statement, Lincoln did not tamper with the institution of slavery. To the contrary, he told... | |
 | James R. Arnold - Juvenile Nonfiction - 2004 - 106 pages
...Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation on September 22, 1862. As of January I, 1 863, "all persons held as slaves within any State or designated part...States, shall be then, thenceforward, and forever free. ..." The proclamation was a military declaration, so it was limited. It applied only to states engaged... | |
 | Donald J. Meyers - History - 2005 - 284 pages
...written on his countenance."256 On New Year's Day, 1863, Lincoln issued his Proclamation. "All persons held as slaves within any state or designated part...state, the people whereof shall then be in rebellion... shall be then, thenceforward, and forever free." 252. Kennedy, Kunhardt, and Kunhardt, Lincoln: An... | |
 | Donald J. Meyers - History - 2005 - 284 pages
...written on his countenance." 256 On New Year's Day, 1863, Lincoln issued his Proclamation. "All persons held as slaves within any state or designated part of a state, the people whereof shall then be in rebellion...shall be then, thenceforward, and forever free." 252.Kennedy, Kunhardt, and Kunhardt, Lincoln:... | |
 | Carl Schurz, James Russell Lowell, Ralph Waldo Emerson - History - 2005 - 197 pages
...the first day of January following ** all persons held as slates within any State, or any designated part of a State, the people whereof shall then be...rebellion against the United States, shall be then, tkeneeforumrd and forever free." The announcement drew forth only bitter response from the Confederacy,... | |
 | Philip A. Cusick - Education - 2005 - 194 pages
...friends, cabinet members, until the document was, on January 1, 1863, ready. Accordingly, "All persons held as slaves within any state, or designated part of a state, the people whereof shall be in rebellion against the United States shall be then, thenceforward, and forever free" (Klingaman,... | |
 | David Herbert Donald, Harold Holzer - Biography & Autobiography - 2005 - 462 pages
...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 there be in rebellion against the United States, shall be then, thenceforth, and forever free; and... | |
 | Richard H. Groves - History - 2005 - 412 pages
...the Preliminary Emancipation Proclamation. It provided that, effective January 1, 1863, "all persons held as slaves within any state, or designated part of a state, the people thereof shall then be in rebellion against the United States, shall be then, thenceforward, and forever... | |
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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,... 
