Emancipation+Proclamation

Where as the twenty second day of September, in the year of our Lord one thousands eight hundred sixty 2 a proclamation was issued by Abragam Licoln. Abraham Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation. It freed slaves on January 1. Abe Lincoln was the one who made The Emancipation Proclamation. He Didn’t like slavery since he first saw it when he was 19 years old, He sailed down to Mississippi on a flatboat. But as soon as he got elected president then his actual problems started. The Emancipation Proclamation officaly outlawed slavery in the united states. John Wilkes Booth, he was an actor who was violently angry with Lincoln for freeing the slaves. He then killed him at a play because he wanted the south to win. William H. Seward, he was kind of a witness to the Proclamation. He told Lincoln not to issue It right away so his paper was not misunderstood. He was also the secretary of state. Sharpsburg, Maryland was important because the Battle of Antietam took place there It was the bloodiest single day of fighting in American history. More than 23,000 men were killed or wounded. It was the victory of the north that Lincoln was waiting for. Hodgenville, Kentucky because Abe was born there on February 12, 1809. He came from a poor family of pioneers. They moved often, throughout the West. Charleston, South Carolina because the bombing of Fort Sumter was there. It marked the spot of the Civil War. Fighting broken out when Confederate soldiers in South Carolina attacked Fort Sumter on 4/12/1862. The fort belonged to the U.S government.

Lincoln Had very little schooling, but he loved to read still farm chores took up most of his time. Could president Lincoln end slavery without disobeying the U.S. Constitution? As the Civil War went on Lincoln decide the answer which is yes. As president he was commander in chief of the army and navy and the Constitution gave him war time powers against his enemies. He could free the slaves to hurt the Confederacy and help the united states win the war. In his proclamation, he called freeing the slaves ‘an act of justice’. He was glad to be doing a good deed, too. Lincoln became known as the president who had freed the slaves. When asked to do away slavery, Lincoln said, ’I can assure you, that the subject is on my mind, by day and night, more than any other”. Despite the expansive wording, the emancipation proclamation was limited in many ways. It applied only the states that had seceded from the union, leaving slavery untouched in the lower border states. The Emancipation Proclamation

President Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation on January 1, 1863, as the nation approached its third year of bloody civil war. The proclamation declared "that all persons held as slaves" within the rebellious states "are, and henceforward shall be free." Despite this expansive wording, the Emancipation Proclamation was limited in many ways. It applied only to states that had seceded from the Union, leaving slavery untouched in the loyal border states. It also expressly exempted parts of the Confederacy that had already come under Northern control. Most important, the freedom it promised depended upon Union military victory. Although the Emancipation Proclamation did not end slavery in the nation, it captured the hearts and imagination of millions of Americans and fundamentally transformed the character of the war. After January 1, 1863, every advance of federal troops expanded the domain of freedom. Moreover, the Proclamation announced the acceptance of black men into the Union Army and Navy, enabling the liberated to become liberators. By the end of the war, almost 200,000 black soldiers and sailors had fought for the Union and freedom. From the first days of the Civil War, slaves had acted to secure their own liberty. The Emancipation Proclamation confirmed their insistence that the war for the Union must become a war for freedom. It added moral force to the Union cause and strengthened the Union both militarily and politically. As a milestone along the road to slavery's final destruction, the Emancipation Proclamation has assumed a place among the great documents of human freedom. The original of the Emancipation Proclamation of January 1, 1863, is in the National Archives in Washington, DC. With the text covering five pages the document was originally tied with narrow red and blue ribbons, which were attached to the signature page by a wafered impression of the seal of the United States. Most of the ribbon remains; parts of the seal are still decipherable, but other parts have worn off. The document was bound with other proclamations in a large volume preserved for many years by the Department of State. When it was prepared for binding, it was reinforced with strips along the center folds and then mounted on a still larger sheet of heavy paper. Written in red ink on the upper right-hand corner of this large sheet is the number of the Proclamation, 95, given to it by the Department of State long after it was signed. With other records, the volume containing the Emancipation Proclamation was transferred in 1936 from the Department of State to the National Archives of the United States.
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Slaves were treated verey badly back then. Abraham Lincoln helped to save millions of lifes because he was from Illinois--a state were they didn't believe in slavery. People thought that just because Abraham's home town didn't believe in slavery makes everyone else free all of their slaves. Slaves and all black people will remember Abraham Lincoln and thank him for freeing slaves. Abraham Lincoln was a hero to all balck people and was known to all black families. Hopefully the white people that had slaves will think about how slavery is a wrong thing to do.


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