Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Eight score and three years ago—on Sept. 22, 1862—President Abraham Lincoln issued a bold executive order, now known as the ...

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1862: President Abraham Lincoln reading the Emancipation Proclamation, which declared that all those enslaved in rebel-held territory would be "thenceforward, and forever, free." Credit - MPI/Getty ...

Eight score and three years ago—on Sept. 22, 1862—President Abraham Lincoln issued a bold executive order, now known as the Preliminary Emancipation Proclamation, that changed the meaning of the Civil ...