First Reading of the Emancipation Proclamation Before the Cabinet, 1866, Library of Congress
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The Emancipation Proclamation, issued by President Abraham Lincoln on September 22nd, 1862, declared that all slaves in rebelling Southern states were now free. The Emancipation Proclamation used Lincoln’s authority to confiscate enemy “war materials” in order to accomplish the goals of the Abolition movement. The Emancipation Proclamation started a series of legislative actions that would eventually free all U.S. slaves. The Proclamation also established the Civil War as a moral struggle against slavery.
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