On January 1, 1863, President Abraham Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation.
President Abraham Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation on January 1, 1863. The proclamation declared "that all persons held as slaves" within the rebellious states "are, and henceforward shall be free." On January 1, 1863, the Emancipation Proclamation was it to go into effect.
The enslaved people in the United States were actually freed when the Emancipation Proclamation issued. Before that the black people were considered as slave in all over America.
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