ocr: Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation. On January1,1863, President Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation, which freed slaves in all states inrebellion at the time. Those slaves living in areas not in rebellion orl under Union control,sucha as the border states, were notfreed. Not until the Thirteenth Amendment was passedin in December1865, did universal emancipationbecome areality.
