THIS DAY IN HISTORY:

de bene esse: literally, of well-being, morally acceptable but subject to future validation or exception

On September 22, 1862, President Abraham Lincoln issued the preliminary Emancipation Proclamation, declaring all slaves in rebel states should be free as of Jan. 1, 1863.

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