History of North America

What year was it when Abraham Lincoln freed the slaves?

Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation on January 1, 1863, which declared that all slaves in Confederate territory were free. However, the proclamation did not immediately free all slaves in the United States, as it did not apply to border states that had not seceded from the Union, and it did not have immediate effect in areas controlled by the Confederacy. It was not until the ratification of the Thirteenth Amendment to the Constitution in December 1865 that slavery was abolished throughout the United States.