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Emancipation Proclamation

PersonalEarly life and careerFamilyHealthReligious viewsSexualityPatentArtifacts and relicsPhotographsBlack Hawk WarPoliticalSpot ResolutionsPolitical career, 1849–1861Baltimore PlotDouglas debatesViews on slavery16th President of the United StatesPresidencyTransitionInaugurations firstsecondTenureAmerican Civil WarThe UnionProclamation 80Emancipation ProclamationTen percent plan13th AmendmentReconstructionPresidential campaigns1860 electionconvention1864 electionconventionSpeeches and worksInaugural speeches firstsecondState of the Union 1861186218631864LyceumPeoriaLost SpeechHouse DividedCooper UnionFarewell addressGettysburgPoetry"The Suicide's Soliloquy"Bixby letterMcCullough letterAssassinationBaltimore PlotState funeralTombCatafalqueFlagsHearseLincoln–Kennedy coincidencesLegacyHistorical reputationMemorialsDepictionsLincoln's BirthdayGhostBibliographyTopical guideThe Emancipation Proclamation, officially Proclamation 95, was a presidential proclamation and executive order issued by United States president Abraham Lincoln on January 1, 1863, during the American Civil War.

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