Browsing: President Lincoln aligned the future of our Nation with the challenge of our world

Ā Ā Ā Ā  With the Emancipation Proclamation, President Lincoln ended slavery in rebellious states that had seceded from the Union, thereby granting freedom to the enslaved in those states. The executive order also admitted newly ā€œfreedā€ Black men into the Army and Navy to fight for their freedom, or as theĀ National ArchivesĀ notes, ā€œ[enabled] the liberated to become liberators.ā€