On September 22, 1862, President Abraham Lincoln issued the preliminary Emancipation Proclamation, announcing that enslaved people in Confederate-held territories would be freed starting January 1, 1863. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
This pivotal step in the Civil War, rooted in Lincoln’s Republican administration’s strategic efforts to weaken the South and advance Union preservation, marked a turning point in American history toward abolition.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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On September 22, 1862, President Abraham Lincoln issued the preliminary Emancipation Proclamation, announcing that enslaved people in Confederate-held territories would be freed starting January 1, 1863. This pivotal step in the Civil War, rooted in Lincoln’s Republican administration’s strategic efforts to weaken the South and advance Union preservation, marked a turning point in American history […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":593,"featured_media":264736,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"give_campaign_id":0,"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"mc4wp_mailchimp_campaign":[],"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":{"format":"standard"},"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[511],"tags":[31414],"class_list":["post-264735","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-culture","tag-this-day-in-conservative-history"],"yoast_head":"\n