The Most Important Events That Changed History Forever

Abolishment of Slavery in the U.S. (1863)

On January 1, 1863, President Abraham Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation declared that all slaves in Confederate regions were free. Although three million Confederate slaves were freed by the decree, Black Americans, particularly in the South, were subjected to other forms of white supremacist violence and involuntary labor under the Black Codes.

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