title: Edict of Emancipation
text: # Edict of Emancipation
  
  Edict of Emancipation may refer to:
  
  * The Emancipation Proclamation, an 1863 directive by President Abraham Lincoln during the American Civil War
  * The Prussian Edict of Emancipation, the granting of Prussian citizenship to all Jews in 1812 during the Prussian reforms
  * Emancipation reform of 1861, liquidation of serfdom in the Russian Empire
  