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.
exists and is an alternate of . Making the world better, one answer at a time. They immigrated to Canada because there was a war going on in Europe at the time ! They immigrated to Canada because there was a war going on in Europe at the time !
My ancestors fled Russia because it was not a good place to be Jewish (good move, grandparents and greatgrands!) They came; they entered the USA. Their welcome was mixed, but they came and they prospered mightily. They were undesirable - uneducated, illiterate in English, poor, with no skills to speak of.