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3 days ago · The Emancipation Proclamation did not free all slaves in the U.S., contrary to a common misconception; it applied in the ten states that were still in rebellion on January 1, 1863, but it did not cover the nearly 500,000 slaves in the slaveholding border states (Missouri, Kentucky, Maryland, and Delaware) or in parts of Virginia and Louisiana ...
4 days ago · The history of slavery in Kentucky, 2. Records and documentation of the lives of enslaved Africans in Kentucky, 2. Identification and the financial aspects of slave ownership in Kentucky, 3. Family and individual lives after emancipation or freedom gained by any other means.
Sep 24, 2024 · Emancipation Proclamation, edict issued by U.S. Pres. Abraham Lincoln on January 1, 1863, that freed the slaves of the Confederate states in rebellion against the Union. It took more than two years for news of the proclamation to reach the slaves in the distant state of Texas.
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Sep 25, 2024 · American Civil War - Emancipation, Slavery, Union: Lincoln drafted the Preliminary Emancipation Proclamation in July 1862. In its final form, the Emancipation Proclamation would free the slaves in areas that were not under Union control as of January 1, 1863, when it went into effect.
Sep 10, 2024 · Juneteenth is a holiday commemorating the end of slavery in the United States, observed annually on June 19. It became a federal holiday in 2021. Organizations in a number of other countries also use the day to recognize the end of slavery and to celebrate the culture and achievements of African Americans.
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3 days ago · Beginning in mid-1863 Lincoln intensified the pressure on all the slave states, and in early 1864 the policy began to pay off. Between January 1864 and January 1865, three slave states abolished slavery, all under intense pressure from the federal government.
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2 days ago · Although this event commemorates the end of slavery, emancipation for the remaining enslaved in two Union border states, Delaware and Kentucky, would not come until December 6, 1865, when the Thirteenth Amendment was ratified; [44] [c] [e] furthermore, thousands of black slaves were not freed until after the Reconstruction Treaties of late 1866 ...
