Lincoln moved to end slavery on New Year’s Day 1863.

[David Lockmiller]

https://www.washingtonpost.com/history/2...f17270d276

There is also a nice photograph of the F.B. Carpenter's work: The first reading of the Emancipation Proclamation before President Abraham Lincoln's Cabinet, painted by F.B. Carpenter. (Library of Congress)

At the dedication of the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C., in 1922, the crowd of 50,000 people was segregated by race.