The Emancipation Proclamation was the executive order given by US President Abraham Lincoln on the 1st of January, 1863, during the American Civil War. It proclaimed that 3.1 million of the the U.S."s 4 million slaves were to eventually be freed as Union...

The complete writings -- thousands of items, with links to all of them. According to Wikipedia: ""Abraham Lincoln (February 12, 1809 - April 15, 1865) was the sixteenth President of the United States, serving from March 4, 1861 until his assassination....