No Confederate states took the offer, and on January 1 Lincoln presented the Emancipation Proclamation. The proclamation declared, "all persons held as slaves within any States, or designated part ...

In this lesson, students explore the realities of life after the Emancipation Proclamation ... 11-12.5 Analyze in detail how a complex primary source is structured, including how key sentences ...

to be freed before the Emancipation Proclamation. “This provides us with real primary source evidence of the experience that people went through trying to gain their freedom and trying to exist ...