The Civil War

PBS America

6:25 AM to 7:40 AM

Thursday 9 May

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The events that led to President Abraham Lincoln deciding to emancipate slaves - a measure considered both morally and militarily crucial to the success of the Union with its intended consequence of cutting the South's manpower. He waited until September 1862 to make his proclamation, on the coat-tails of the successful battle at Antietam Creek