No Confederate states took the offer, and on January 1 Lincoln presented the Emancipation Proclamation. The proclamation declared, "all persons held as slaves within any States, or designated part ...

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The Emancipation Proclamation was signed Jan. 1, 1863. This freed the slaves. That this was even necessary should have ended the stain on our country’s history. Such is not the case. The ...

The nation’s longest-running parade made a return in honor of the Emancipation Proclamation, which was declared Jan. 1, 1863 by President Abraham Lincoln. This liberated African Americans from ...

In recognition of Black History Month, Clark Curtis will be taking a closer look at some of the people, places, and events that have helped mold the story of Washington’ s wealth of history and her ...

Shaun Harper, a University of Southern California professor, says Trump's proclamation is 'incomplete.' Like most presidents of the past 30 years, Donald Trump issued a proclamation that ...

On January 31, 1865, the U.S. Congress passed the 13th Amendment to the Constitution, which ended slavery in the United States, and sent it to states for ratification. The amendment reads as follows: ...