On November 6, 1860 Abraham Lincoln was elected President of the United States -- an event that outraged southern states. The Republican party had run on an anti-slavery platform, and many ...

The decree also left room for a plan of compensated emancipation. No Confederate states took the offer, and on January 1 Lincoln presented the Emancipation Proclamation. The proclamation declared ...

U.S. President Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation during the Civil War, freeing enslaved Black people in the Confederate states on Jan. 1 1863 and allowing the newly freed Black ...