n September 22, the president announced that slaves in areas still in rebellion within 100 days would be free. On January 1, 1863, Lincoln issued the final Emancipation Proclamation, which declared “that all persons held as slaves” within the rebel states “are, and henceforward shall be free.
who among us would be content to have the colour of their skin changed and stand in this place? who among us would then be content with the patience and delay