| Maurice York, Rick Spaulding - Biography & Autobiography - 2008 - 278 pages
...a shot over the bow of the Confederate States, announcing that on January first, 1863, "all persons held as slaves, within any state, or designated part...rebellion against the United States shall be then, thenceforward, and forever free." The Proclamation was exactly what Emerson had been waiting for since... | |
| Mark Herringshaw, Jennifer Schuchmann - Religion - 2008 - 275 pages
...decision. The deal had been struck. He then read the proclamation, which says, in part, "All persons held as slaves within any State or designated part...rebellion against the United States, shall be then, thenceforward, and forever free."5 Unlike Miriam, Abraham Lincoln clearly offered a tit-for-tat to... | |
| Peter N. Stearns - History - 2008 - 433 pages
...containing, among other things, the following, to wit: "That on the ist day of January, AD 1863, all persons held as slaves within any State or designated part...people whereof shall then be in rebellion against the 256 United States shall be then, thenceforward, and forever free; and the executive government of the... | |
| Joseph Nazel - Biography & Autobiography - 2008 - 196 pages
...Proclamation, which read in part: [O]n the first day of January, AD 1863, all persons held as slaves within any 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... | |
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