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On this day in 1862, in the second year of the Civil War, President Abraham Lincoln told his Cabinet that he planned to issue a proclamation freeing slaves. Lincoln said, however, that he would ...

So why are African Americans free today? Because of the 13th Amendment to the Constitution, which Lincoln, especially, knew was essential for the permanent abolition of slavery. Friday ...

In the Peoria speech, Lincoln said that slavery was wrong, Foner says, and then admitted that he didn't know what should be done about it, even contemplating "free[ing] all the slaves, and send ...

Slavery, Lincoln said, “deprives our republican example of its just influence in the world—enables the enemies of free institutions, with plausibility, to taunt us as hypocrites.” ...

Virginia Newman claimed Lincoln came through Jasper County, Texas, in a large carriage. He shook Newman's hand and called on the white population to free their slaves. “Some folks say dat ain’ ...

It stated that if Southern states did not surrender by Jan. 1, 1863, the president would issue a final order to make their slaves “forever free.” The fighting continued. Some doubted Lincoln ...

On September 17, 1862, over 23,000 soldiers fell in a single day near the small town of Sharpsburg, Maryland. The battle ...

"All persons held as slaves within any State or designated ... thenceforward, and forever free," Lincoln announced. The "Great Emancipator" claimed controversial war powers in making the proclamation.

Buying slaves to set them free is a much better fit with libertarian thinking than the use of force. That’s why in his recent debate with The Daily Show’s Jon Stewart, libertarian pundit ...