EMANCIPATION PROCLAMATION BY PRESIDENT ABRAHAM LINCOLN EMANCIPATION PROCLAMATION CIVIL WAR SLAVERY NORTH SOUTH CIVIL RIGHTS/EQUALITY ABOLITION HUMAN RIGHTS AFRICAN AMERICANS U.S GOVERNMENT AND CONSTITUTION JANUARY 1 1863 WHEREAS ON THE 22ND DAY OF SEPTEMBER IN THE YEAR OF OUR LORD 1862 A PROCLAMATION WAS ISSUED BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES CONTAINING AMONG OTHER THINGS THE FOLLOWING TO WIT THAT ON THE 1ST DAY OF JANUARY IN THE YEAR OF OUR LORD 1863 ALL PERSONS HELD AS SLAVES WITHIN ANY STATE OR DESIGNATED PART OF A STATE THE PEOPLE WHEREOF SHALL THEN BE IN REBELLION AGAINST THE UNITED STATES SHALL BE THEN THENCEFORWARD AND FOREVER FREE AND THE EXECUTIVE GOVERNMENT OF THE UNITED STATES INCLUDING THE MILITARY AND NAVAL AUTHORITY THEREOF WILL RECOGNIZE AND MAINTAIN THE FREEDOM OF SUCH PERSONS AND WILL DO NO ACT OR ACTS TO REPRESS SUCH PERSONS OR ANY OF THEM IN ANY EFFORTS THEY MAY MAKE FOR THEIR ACTUAL FREEDOM THAT THE EXECUTIVE WILL ON THE 1ST DAY OF JANUARY AFORESAID BY PROCLAMATION DESIGNATE THE STATES AND PARTS OF STATES IF ANY IN WHICH THE PEOPLE THEREOF RESPECTIVELY SHALL THEN BE IN REBELLION AGAINST THE UNITED STATES AND THE FACT THAT ANY STATE OR THE PEOPLE THEREOF SHALL ON THAT DAY BE IN GOOD FAITH REPRESENTED IN THE CONGRESS OF THE UNITED STATES BY MEMBERS CHOSEN THERETO AT ELECTIONS WHEREIN A MAJORITY OF THE QUALIFIED VOTERS OF SUCH STATE SHALL HAVE PARTICIPATED SHALL IN THE ABSENCE OF STRONG COUNTERVAILING TESTIMONY BE DEEMED CONCLUSIVE EVIDENCE THAT SUCH STATE AND THE PEOPLE THEREOF ARE NOT THEN IN REBELLION AGAINST THE UNITED STATES NOW THEREFORE I ABRAHAM LINCOLN PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES BY VIRTUE OF THE POWER IN ME VESTED AS COMMANDER IN CHIEF OF THE ARMY AND NAVY OF THE UNITED STATES IN TIME OF ACTUAL ARMED REBELLION AGAINST THE AUTHORITY AND GOVERNMENT OF THE UNITED STATES AND AS A FIT AND NECESSARY WAR MEASURE FOR SUPPRESSING SAID REBELLION DO ON THIS 1ST DAY OF JANUARY IN THE YEAR OF OUR LORD 1863 AND IN ACCORDANCE WITH MY PURPOSE SO TO DO PUBLICLY PROCLAIMED FOR THE FULL PERIOD OF 100 DAYS FROM THE DAY FIRST ABOVE MENTIONED ORDER AND DESIGNATE AS THE STATES AND PARTS OF STATES WHEREIN THE PEOPLE THEREOF RESPECTIVELY ARE THIS DAY IN REBELLION AGAINST THE UNITED STATES THE FOLLOWING TO WIT ARKANSAS TEXAS LOUISIANA EXCEPT THE PARISHES OF ST BERNARD PLAQUEMINES JEFFERSON ST JOHN ST CHARLES ST JAMES ASCENSION ASSUMPTION TERREBONNE LAFOURCHE ST MARY ST MARTIN AND ORLEANS INCLUDING THE CITY OF NEW ORLEANS MISSISSIPPI ALABAMA FLORIDA GEORGIA SOUTH CAROLINA NORTH CAROLINA AND VIRGINIA EXCEPT THE FORTY EIGHT COUNTIES DESIGNATED AS WEST VIRGINIA AND ALSO THE COUNTIES OF BERKLEY ACCOMAC NORTHAMPTON ELIZABETH CITY YORK PRINCESS ANN AND NORFOLK INCLUDING THE CITIES OF NORFOLK AND PORTSMOUTH AND WHICH EXCEPTED PARTS ARE FOR THE PRESENT LEFT PRECISELY AS IF THIS PROCLAMATION WERE NOT ISSUED AND BY VIRTUE OF THE POWER AND FOR THE PURPOSE AFORESAID I DO ORDER AND DECLARE THAT ALL PERSONS HELD AS SLAVES WITHIN SAID DESIGNATED STATES AND PARTS OF STATES ARE AND HENCEFORWARD SHALL BE FREE AND THAT THE EXECUTIVE GOVERNMENT OF THE UNITED STATES INCLUDING THE MILITARY AND NAVAL AUTHORITIES THEREOF WILL RECOGNIZE AND MAINTAIN THE FREEDOM OF SAID PERSONS AND I HEREBY ENJOIN UPON THE PEOPLE SO DECLARED TO BE FREE TO ABSTAIN FROM ALL VIOLENCE UNLESS IN NECESSARY SELF DEFENCE AND I RECOMMEND TO THEM THAT IN ALL CASES WHEN ALLOWED THEY LABOR FAITHFULLY FOR REASONABLE WAGES AND I FURTHER DECLARE AND MAKE KNOWN THAT SUCH PERSONS OF SUITABLE CONDITION WILL BE RECEIVED INTO THE ARMED SERVICE OF THE UNITED STATES TO GARRISON FORTS POSITIONS STATIONS AND OTHER PLACES AND TO MAN VESSELS OF ALL SORTS IN SAID SERVICE AND UPON THIS ACT SINCERELY BELIEVED TO BE AN ACT OF JUSTICE WARRANTED BY THE CONSTITUTION UPON MILITARY NECESSITY I INVOKE THE CONSIDERATE JUDGMENT OF MANKIND AND THE GRACIOUS FAVOR OF ALMIGHTY GOD FROM EMANCIPATION PROCLAMATION BY ABRAHAM LINCOLN REPRINTED IN THE ANNALS OF AMERICA VOLUME 9 1858 1865 COPYRIGHT 1976 BY ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA INC
