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Events on Monday 22 September 1862 1
1862Lincoln issues preliminary Emancipation ProclamationWarns of freedom for enslaved people in rebel statesPresident Abraham Lincoln announced that enslaved people in Confederate states still in rebellion on January 1, 1863 would be declared free. The proclamation reframed the Civil War as a struggle over slavery and discouraged European intervention on behalf of the Confederacy.