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On September 22 1862, Abraham Lincoln issued his preliminary Emancipation Proclamation, in which he declared that as of January 1, 1863, all slaves in states in rebellion against the Union shall be then, thenceforward, and forever free..
President Lincoln, in his role as Commander in Chief of the Army and Navy, published two Executive Orders now known as The Emancipation Proclamation; the first was on September 22, 1862, and the second was on January 1, 1863.These Executive Orders declared all slaves in the Confederate States of America to be free.Of course this freedom was no more than a promise until the Armies of the CSA surrendered one-by-one. Lincoln's Executive Orders did not end slavery in the Union states, however.Lincoln made the end of all U.S. slavery an important element in his campaign for re-election in 1864. Voters in Maryland and Missouri ended slavery there.resident Lincoln, in his role as Commander in Chief of the Army and Navy, published two Executive Orders now known as The Emancipation Proclamation; the first was on September 22, 1862, and the second was on January 1, 1863.