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[[Image:Emancipation 01.jpg|thumb|right|300px|First page of the Emancipation Proclamation]]
[[Image:Emancipation 01.jpg|thumb|right|300px|First page of the Emancipation Proclamation]]
President [[Abraham Lincoln]] issued the '''Emancipation Proclamation''' on January 1, 1863, as the nation approached its third year of bloody civil war. The proclamation declared "that all persons held as slaves" within the rebellious states "are, and henceforward shall be free." Lincoln called it "... the central act of my administration, and the great event of the nineteenth century." [http://www.amazon.com/Lincolns-Emancipation-Proclamation-Slavery-America/dp/0743221826/ref=sr_1_1/002-6991472-4948010?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1182550444&sr=8-1]
President [[Abraham Lincoln]] issued the '''Emancipation Proclamation''' on January 1, 1863, as the nation approached its third year of bloody civil war. The proclamation declared "that all persons held as slaves" within the rebellious states "are, and henceforward shall be free." Lincoln called it "... the central act of my administration, and the great event of the nineteenth century." [https://www.amazon.com/Lincolns-Emancipation-Proclamation-Slavery-America/dp/0743221826/ref=sr_1_1/002-6991472-4948010?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1182550444&sr=8-1]
Despite this expansive wording, the Emancipation Proclamation was limited in many ways. It applied only to states that had seceded from the Union, leaving slavery untouched in the loyal border states. It also expressly exempted parts of the Confederacy that had already come under Northern control. Most important, the freedom it promised depended upon Union military victory.
Despite this expansive wording, the Emancipation Proclamation was limited in many ways. It applied only to states that had seceded from the Union, leaving slavery untouched in the loyal border states. It also expressly exempted parts of the Confederacy that had already come under Northern control. Most important, the freedom it promised depended upon Union military victory.