Slaves-Emancipation+Proclamation

Slaves-Emancipation Proclamation This picture is from http://www.historicaldocuments.com/EmancipationProclamationDec.jpg __ FACTS __   ·  As a goal along the road to slavery's concluding destruction, the Emancipation Proclamation has assumed a place along with the great documents of human freedom.  ·   Our Sixteenth President, Abraham Lincoln, issued the Emancipation Proclamation on January 1, 1863  ·   The proclamation stated "that all persons held as slaves" within the rebellious states "are, and henceforward shall be free."  ·  Most importantly, the freedom that the Emancipation Proclamation promised depended upon Union military victory.  ·  The Emancipation Proclamation declared the acceptance of black men into the Union Army and Navy, which allowed the liberated to become liberators.  ·  By the end of the war, almost 200,000 black soldiers and sailors had fought for the Union and for their freedom.  ·  <span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%; font-family: 'Corbel','sans-serif';">The original document of the Emancipation Proclamation of January 1, 1863, is located at the National Archives in Washington, DC. <span style="font-size: 18pt; line-height: 150%; font-family: 'Corbel','sans-serif';"> <span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol;"> <span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol;"> <span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol;"> __ Check Out the Link for More Info __ <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';"> http://www.archives.gov/exhibits/featured_documents/emancipation_proclamation/ <span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">