Black Freedom Struggle in the United States:

Is Slavery Dead

News article: On the effects of the Emancipation on slavery and the civil war, 1864

38 S. 159 (1863-1865)

A bill to aid the proclamation of emancipation issued by the President on the First day of January, eighteen hundred and sixty-three., 1864

Resolutions of the legislature of Michigan, in favor of the proclamation of the President of the United States, of the first of January, emancipating the slaves in the slaves in the insurgent states, and pledging the State of Michigan to sustain the national administration in all its efforts to quell the present rebellion, and restore peace to the Union.

Resolutions of legislature of Michigan approving emancipation proclamation and sustaining administration in efforts to suppress rebellion, 1863