A Pekin woman who gained her freedom from indentured servitude with the help of Abraham Lincoln more than two decades before he issued the Emancipation Proclamation as president is the subject of a ...
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.
The conflict prompted Abraham Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation in 1863 ... in the US about how the war should be remembered. This memorial was erected by Robert's brother.