Fremont issued an emancipation proclamation in St. Louis, freeing slaves in Missouri, a bold move that predated President Abraham Lincoln’s more famous Emancipation Proclamation by two years.

It’s a day that commemorates January 1, 1863. That’s when Abraham Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation into law. Newly elected Roanoke City Mayor Joe Cobb joined other lawmakers ...

According to the Pensacola Commercial newspaper the next day, railroad fireman Daniel Hefern, identified as "white," and Abraham Jackson ... read President Lincoln's Emancipation issued two ...

The Emancipation Proclamation issued by President Abraham Lincoln on January 1, 1863, declared the liberation of African Americans from slavery. A parade and program at the International African ...