...containing, among other things, the following, to wit: "That on the first day of January, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty-three, all...authority thereof, will recognize and maintain the freedom of such persons, and will do no act or acts to repress such persons, or any of them, in any efforts...

...containing, among other things, the following, to wit: That on the first day of January, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty-three, all...authority thereof, will recognize and maintain the freedom of such persons, and will do no act or acts to repress such persons, or any of them, in any efforts...

...Governments existing there, will be continued. That on the first day of January in the year of our Lord, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-three,...authority thereof, will recognize and maintain the freedom of such persons, and will do no act or acts to repress such persons, or any of them, in any efforts...

...landmark document in the history of civil rights: ... on the 1st day of January, AD 1863, all persons held as slaves within any State or designated part...authority thereof, will recognize and maintain the freedom of such persons and will do no act or acts to repress such persons, or any of them, in any efforts...

...war-effort of the South, read in part as follows: ... on the first day of January, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixtythree, all...States, shall be then, thenceforward, and forever free. Another strange material effect of this text, intended from the outset, was to allow slavery to continue...

...containing among other things the following to wit: 'That on the first day of January in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty-three, all...rebellion against the United States, shall be then, thenceforth and forever free, and The Executive Government of the United States, including the military...

...first day of January, in the year of our Lord one-thousand eight hundred and sixty-three, all per sons held as slaves within any State, or designated part...shall be then, thence-forward, and FOREVER FREE.... By the President, si Abraham Lincoln.21 A month after Lincoln's issuing the Emancipation Proclamation,...

...among other things, the following, to wit: — " 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 any designated part of a State, the people whereof shall then be in rebellion against the...

...States, and the colonizing of them; that on January 1, 1863, all slaves in states or parts of states in rebellion against the United States "shall be then, thenceforward, and forever free," and the Federal Government would "recognize the freedom of such persons." It was a preliminary proclamation....

...proclaimed that on January 1, 1863, all persons held as slaves in any place where the people were then in rebellion against the United States "shall be then, thenceforward, and forever free. . . ." Two minor changes were made at the suggestion of Seward, and the document, known as the Preliminary...