USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -President Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation on January 1, 1863, as the nation approached its third year of bloody civil war. The proclamation declared “that all persons held as slaves” within the rebellious states “are, and henceforward shall be free."

Detailed explanation-2: -In 1863 President Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation declaring “all persons held as slaves within any State, or designated part of a State, the people whereof shall then be in rebellion against the United States, shall be then, thenceforward, and forever free.”

Detailed explanation-3: -After the Revolutionary War, many Northern citizens wanted slavery to be abolished on a national scale as well. Many Southern states, however, felt they needed to keep the institution of slavery in order to maintain the agricultural economy based around cash crops like tobacco and rice.

Detailed explanation-4: -Passed by the Right Hon’ble the President of the Council of India in Council, On the 7th of April, 1843, with the assent of the Right Hon, ble the Governor General of India. An Act to for declaring and amending the Law regarding the condition of Slavery within the Territories of the East India Company.

Detailed explanation-5: -Thomas Paine’s 1775 article “African Slavery in America” was one of the first to advocate abolishing slavery and freeing slaves.