culminating in the Emancipation Proclamation. Read on for some of his most famous quotes and facts about his family life, his iconic look (including that stovepipe hat), and his eventual ...

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 ...

ST. LOUIS – In 1861, Major General John C. Fremont issued an emancipation proclamation in St. Louis, freeing slaves in ...