September 22 in Victorian History
What the Victorians were up to on this date, year by remarkable year.
1862
Lincoln announces emancipation
Five days after Antietam, President Lincoln issues the preliminary Emancipation Proclamation: from 1 January, all slaves in the rebellious states shall be free. It is a war measure with a moral thunderclap. Britain's working classes, though starved of cotton, rally to the Union cause.