Draft of the Emancipation Proclamation - Exhibitions - myLOC.gov (Library of Congress)
myloc.govDraft of the Emancipation Proclamation On July 13, 1862, President Abraham Lincoln consulted secretaries William H. Seward and Gideon Welles on the particulars of the Emancipation Proclamation. Both men were speechless. Seward anticipated anarchy in the South and perhaps foreign intervention in the ...