TY - BOOK AU - Lincoln,Abraham TI - The Emancipation Proclamation AV - E456 PY - 2007/// CY - Salt Lake City, UT PB - Project Gutenberg KW - United States. President (1861-1865 : Lincoln). Emancipation Proclamation N1 - Wikipedia page about this book: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emancipation_Proclamation; Release date is 2007-07-16; Original publication data not identified N2 - "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.) UR - https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/22082 ER -