No Confederate states took the offer, and on January 1 Lincoln presented the Emancipation Proclamation. The proclamation declared, "all persons held as slaves within any States, or designated part ...

For each student, print out and make copies of the Emancipation Proclamation transcript (accessible via the PBS LearningMedia website listed above – see the “For Teachers” section at the ...

The video fades to a white screen and on-screen text reads: "President Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation took effect Jan. 1, 1863.” A painted portrait of Abraham Lincoln, a photograph of the ...