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Theresa
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Discuss your list here, since RM has requested we not do so in his topic.
Continuation from this topic.
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Theresa
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| Quote: | 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 immediately free a single slave, it 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.
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Defiant
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I dont deny that the Emancipation Proclamation was really good, it was just a really really bad thing right away. It turned out good, but the reason behind doing it was so Lincoln could have more troops for his army!
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Puck
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| Thu May 13, 2004 9:13 pm |
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Read April 1865. Lincoln was a superd President, perhaps the best, because of how he was able to unify the ountry.
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Theresa
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| Defiant wrote: | | I dont deny that the Emancipation Proclamation was really good, it was just a really really bad thing right away. It turned out good, but the reason behind doing it was so Lincoln could have more troops for his army! |
Well, now, that's illogical... It'd have been much easier for him to just tell them to fight, like the South did...
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Sam Kenobi
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well... remember, Lincoln wasn't an abolitionist, especially in the beginning. He was an anti-slaveryite, which basically just meant he thought slaves could stay in the south, bt the slave trade itself needed to end. I'm inclined to agree that it was (at first) just a way to get a bigger army. it definatly wasn't a morale booster for the Union, as your common Billy Yank was about as racist as your common Johnny Reb. But Lincoln was a great. I doubt any other president could have preserved the Union so well- or at all for that matter
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Defiant
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I think he did truly great things, for all the wrong reasons. At first.
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Sam Kenobi
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It's Lincoln's Gettysburg Address that was his real clam to greatness
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