General Orders, Containing General Order No. 139, the Preliminary Emancipation Proclamation

by Civil War, Emancipation Proclamation

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“That on the first day of January, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty-three, all persons held as slaves within any State or designated area of a State, the people whereof shall then be in rebellion against the United States, shall be then, thenceforward, and forever free….” FIRST OBTAINABLE PRINTING OF THE PRELIMINARY EMANCIPATION PROCLAMATION, setting a date for the freedom of more than three million enslaved in the United States

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