Emancipation Proclamation

President Lincoln's Proclamation of Freedom

Whereas on the 22d day of September in the year of our Lord 1862, a proclamation was issued by the President of the States containing, among other things, following, to wit: That on the 1st day of January in the year of Lord 1863 all persons held as slaves within any or designated part of a State the people whereof then be in rebellion against the United States shall then thenceforward and forever free...

"...the following to wit Arkansas, Texas, Louisiana (except the parishes of St. Bernard, Plaquemine, Jefferson, St. John, St. Charles, St. James, Ascension, Assumption, Terre Bonne, Lafourche, St. Mary, St. Martin, and Orleans, including the city of New Orleans), Mississippi, Alabama, Florida, Georgia, South Carolina, North Carolina, and Virginia (except the forty-eight counties designated as West Virginia, and also the counties of Berkeley, Accomac, Northampton, Elizabeth City, York, Princess Anne, and Norfolk, including the cities of Norfolk and Portsmouth) and which excepted parts are for the present left precisely as if this proclamation were not issued...". [Source]

Mill In Arkansas

Plaquemine Parish Courthouse