The following document is the Emancipation Proclamation, made by President Lincoln on September 22, 1862. The Emancipation Proclamation granted freedom to the slaves in the Confederate States if the States did not return to the Union by January 1, 1863.
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By 1849, only 2 of these families remained, the rest having emigrated to warmer farming conditions in the United States. The largest Germanic wave into Canada did not originate in Germany or the United States but in eastern Europe, the Austro-Hungarian Empire, and Russia. It was launched in 1874 with the arrival of 7000 ethnic German Mennonites from southern Russia.