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The Emancipation Proclamation was an executive order issued by President Abraham Lincoln on January 1, 1863 that freed African Americans from slavery.
In the United States slavery was order to end in 1863 by President Lincoln. However, it took many states several years to follow this law.
The Emancipation Proclamation is an executive order issued by United States President Abraham Lincoln during the American Civil War under his war powers. It proclaimed the freedom of 3.1 million of the nation's 4 million slaves, and immediately freed 50,000 of them, with the rest freed as Union armies advanced.Confederate States of America that did not return to Union control by January 1, 1863. The actual order was signed and issued January 1, 1863; it named the locations under Confederate control where it would apply. Lincoln issued the Executive Order by his authority as "Commander in Chief of the Army and Navy" under Article II, section 2 of the United States Constitution.
The Emancipation Proclamation, was a set of 2 executive orders, ISSUED by President Lincoln, which freed slaves in the Confederate States, which had seceded from the Union, and not returned, as of January 1, 1863. It was not a speech; Lincoln had drafted, written and issued the Emancipation Proclamation, and signed the final order on January 1, 1863, but it was not a speech.
Abraham Lincoln rid the world of African slavery by winning the Civil War against the south in the 1800s and outlawing slavery. Addendum: Lincoln only wrote an order called the Emancipation Proclamation which promised freedom to Slaves from certain Confederate States who could make it to the Union in the North. Slavery was finally abolished in the North by Congress Dec.6th, 1865 after the Civil War. Until then Slavery existed both in the Union North and in the Confederate South.