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On September 22 1862, Abraham Lincoln issued his preliminary Emancipation Proclamation, in which he declared that as of January 1, 1863, all slaves in states in rebellion against the Union shall be then, thenceforward, and forever free..
1619 Dutch ship brings 20 Africans to. Jamestown, Va., the first enslaved. Africans in the U.S. 1793 Eli Whitneyâs new cotton gin. increases demand for slaves. 1793 Congress passes Fugitive Slave Act, making it a federal crime to assist a. slave trying to escape. 1808 1865 Congress bans importation of slaves.