Emancipation+Proclamation+AR

=Emancipation Proclamation= ====This was issued by Abraham Lincoln during the civil war. It proclaimed freedom of 3.1 million slaves of the nations 4 million, and immediately freed 50,000 of them with the rest freed as union armies advanced. In 1862 Abraham Lincoln announced that he would issue a formal emancipation of all slaves in the Confederate States of America, that did return to the union until January 1863.====