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.
LIBRARY OF CONGRESS. The Emancipation Proclamation, formally issued on January 1, 1863, by President Abraham Lincoln is often mistakenly praised as the legal instrument that ended slaveryâactually, the Thirteenth Amendment to the Constitution, ratified in December 1865, outlawed Slavery.oming as it did in the midst of the Civil War (1861â65), the proclamation announced to the Confederacy and the world that the Abolition of slavery had become an important goal of the North in its fight against the rebellious states of the South.