ABSTRACT
On September 22, 1862, President Abraham Lincoln announced his intention to emancipate the slaves in those areas still in rebellion against the Union on January 1, 1863. On January 1, in the Emancipation Proclamation, he ordered that "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."
