<Table> Emancipation Proclamation <Tr> <Td_colspan="2"> </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Td_colspan="2"> Henry Lewis Stephens, untitled watercolor (c. 1863) of a black man reading a newspaper with headline "Presidential Proclamation / Slavery". </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Td_colspan="2"> The five page original document, held in the National Archives Building . Until 1936 it had been bound with other proclamations in a large volume held by the Department of State . </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Th> Type </Th> <Td> Presidential proclamation </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Th> Signed by </Th> <Td> Abraham Lincoln on 22 September 1862 </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Th_colspan="2"> Summary </Th> </Tr> <Tr> <Td_colspan="2"> <Ul> <Li> During the American Civil War, enslaved people in the designated areas of the South declared "free" </Li> </Ul> </Td> </Tr> </Table> <Tr> <Td_colspan="2"> Henry Lewis Stephens, untitled watercolor (c. 1863) of a black man reading a newspaper with headline "Presidential Proclamation / Slavery". </Td> </Tr>

When was the emancipation proclamation signed into law