The Emancipation Proclamation...

Item # 701595

January 03, 1863

NEW YORK TIMES, Jan. 3, 1863

* President Abraham Lincoln
* Emancipation Proclamation
* Freedom for slaves

Although the front page has some great coverage on the battle of Murfreesboro & other war events, the prime content is on page 5 where the first column contains the complete text of the Emancipation Proclamation.
It is headed: "EMANCIPATION" "President Lincoln's Proclamation" "The Slaves in Arkansas, Texas, Mississippi, Alabama, Florida, Georgia, South Carolina and North Carolina Declared to be Free" "Parts of Louisiana and Virginia Excepted" "The Negroes to be Received into the Armed Service of the United States". The document is signed by him in type: Abraham Lincoln.
Lincoln announced the freeing of all slaves on September 22, 1862, to take effect January 1, 1863, this printing formally documenting that freedom of slaves is now the law of the land. This is one of the most historically significant documents of the Civil War.
Complete in 8 pages, never bound nor trimmed (as issued on the streets), nice e condition.

background: The Emancipation Proclamation, issued by President Abraham Lincoln during the American Civil War, was a landmark executive order announced on January 1, 1863. It declared that all enslaved people in Confederate-held territory were to be freed. Importantly, it applied only to states in rebellion and did not immediately free slaves in border states loyal to the Union or in areas already under Union control. The proclamation also authorized the enrollment of Black soldiers into the Union Army, strengthening the North’s moral and military position. While it did not end slavery nationwide—that required the 13th Amendment in 1865—it fundamentally shifted the war’s purpose to include the abolition of slavery as a central Union goal and altered the international perception of the conflict, discouraging European powers from recognizing or supporting the Confederacy.