No Confederate states took the offer, and on January 1 Lincoln presented the Emancipation Proclamation. The proclamation declared, "all persons held as slaves within any States, or designated part ...

and enforced the Emancipation Proclamation, which had been issued on Jan. 1, 1863, effectively freeing all remaining enslaved ...

November 1 is Emancipation Day in Maryland. On this day 160 years ago, enslaved people living in the state of Maryland found out they were free. Maryland's Emancipation Day comes one year after the ...