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This Day in Legal History: The Preliminary Emancipation Proclamation
On September 22, 1862, following the Union’s costly victory at Antietam, President Abraham Lincoln issued the preliminary Emancipation Proclamation. It gave the Confederate states an ultimatum: return to the Union by January 1, 1863, or the enslaved people in the rebelling states “shall be then, thenceforward, and forever free.” The Confederacy did not yield, and on New Year’s Day 1863, Lincoln issued the final Proclamation, recasting the Civil War as a war against slavery and setting more than three million people on the…
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