2012 at the Houston Museum of Natural Science, from 9 a.m. to 9 p.m. President Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation on Jan. 1, 1863, during the American Civil War, formally ...

Rather, the proclamation itself specified that it only applied to those localities "in rebellion against the United States": the Confederacy. HOUSTON HERITAGE: Descendants of the emancipated work ...

It famously took over two years for black citizens in Texas to reap the benefits of Abraham Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation ... didn’t keep whites in Houston from enslaving blacks.