ABC book for Civil War
E

Emancipation Proclamation

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E is for Emancipation Proclamation of 1863. It was issued on January 1, 1863 It was for freeing all the slaves in the Confederate states. Abraham had made this proclamation. The bad thing was that only certain states got freed of slaves. It did not free the slaves in the border states or any other southern state. It only freed the slaves in the Union States.

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