Funeral directors are employed primarily at funeral homes, which are located virtually everywhere. They are responsible for a number of tasks involved with funerals, including writing obituaries, embalming bodies, arranging burials and more.
On this day in 1862, President Abraham Lincoln issues a preliminary Emancipation Proclamation, which sets a date for the freedom of more than 3 million black slaves in the United States and recasts the Civil War as a fight against slavery.
As the Confederate states did not end the war, Abraham Lincoln signed the Preliminary Emancipation Proclamation, and turned a war, fought for the preservation of Union, into a war that was aimed at ending slavery.braham Lincoln, the 16th President of the United States, is remembered for the role he played in the emancipation of slaves. Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation on September 22, 1862. According to the proclamation,