 | John Hope Franklin, Loren Schweninger - History - 2005 - 306 pages
...signed the Preliminary Emancipation Proclamation, which stated that on January 1, 1863, "all persons held as slaves within any State or designated part...people whereof shall then be in rebellion against the United States shall be then, thenceforward, and forever free."22 It also called for the enlistment... | |
 | David Brion Davis - Social Science - 2006 - 464 pages
...Union forces into an army of liberation. Lincoln first affirmed that on January i, 1863, "all persons held as slaves within any state, or designated part...people whereof shall then be in rebellion against the United States shall be then, thenceforward, and forever free." But then, in the revolutionary heart... | |
 | Editors of Chase's - Reference - 2006 - 306 pages
...states. (Four slave states had not seceded from the Union.) "That on ... [Jan 1, 1863] ... all persons held as slaves within any state or designated part...people whereof shall then be in rebellion against the United States, shall be then, thenceforward, and forever, free. . . ." For more info go to Ben's Guide... | |
 | Robert C. Williams - Biography & Autobiography - 2006 - 562 pages
...war continued, even as emancipation took effect. On January 1, 1863, Lincoln proclaimed, "all persons held as slaves within any State or designated part...people whereof shall then be in rebellion against the United States, shall be then, thenceforth and forever free." In other words, immediate emancipation... | |
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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, shall... 
