01517cam a22003013u 4500 22082 UtSlPG 20260610133517.0 m cr n 260607r2007||||utu|||||o|||||||||||||| d UtSlPG en iso639-1 E456 Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 The Emancipation Proclamation Salt Lake City, UT : Project Gutenberg, 2007 1 online resource : multiple file formats text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier Wikipedia page about this book: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emancipation_Proclamation Release date is 2007-07-16 "The Emancipation Proclamation" by Abraham Lincoln is a presidential proclamation issued on January 1, 1863, during the American Civil War. This executive order changed the legal status of more than 3.5 million enslaved African Americans in Confederate states from enslaved to free. The Proclamation transformed the Civil War from a struggle to preserve the Union into a fight to end slavery, energizing abolitionists while outraging Southern sympathizers and reshaping the nation's future. (This is an automatically generated summary.) Original publication data not identified United States. President (1861-1865 : Lincoln). Emancipation Proclamation https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/22082 63226 63226