January 1, 1863: “Freedom’s Eve”- As the nation approaches its third year of a bloody civil war, President Abraham Lincoln issues the Emancipation Proclamation – declaring “that all persons held as slaves” within the rebellious states “are, and henceforward shall be free.”
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