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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Canada was not the first country to open their door to immigrants from Iceland. Between 1855 and1871 a small number of Mormon converts moved to Utah in the United States, and roughly 40 people went to Brazil in theyears 1863-1873.