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    Emancipation Proclamation The Emancipation Proclamation was an important act ,the Emancipation Proclamation was signed by president Abraham Licoln , allowing the freedom of all in the rebelling territories of the confederacy and allowing Blacks enlistment in the Union Army. Since the beginning of the Civil War, free Black people in general, were ready to fight on behalf of the Union, yet they were prevented from doing so. Popular racial stereotypes and discrimination against Blacks in the…

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    support and agree with the Emancipation when he first proposed it. They felt it was “too radical”, but later supported it (“Facts on the Emancipation Proclamation”). However, not everyone felt this way. Some supported the emancipation from the beginning. Frederick Douglass was a man born into slavery in the United States. When he found out about the Emancipation Proclamation he gave a speech to a “packed house at New York’s Cooper Institute” (“Emancipation Proclamation: Frederick Douglass…

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    Analytical Essay on the Emancipation Proclamation The United States of America has had an aggrieved history of slavery about African Americans. African Americans at this contemporary are descendants of Africans who were force from their homeland and brought here in the United States as slaves. During the United States slavery era, slaves were consider properties of their master. At the United States’ constitution convention, it was very much explicit and adhered to by the founding fathers by…

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    The Significance of the Emancipation Proclamation When the civil war began, the United States was fighting a war that held the nations unity in its grasp. The southerners fought to secede the Union and establish themselves as a separate country while Lincoln fought to keep the country united. Near the end of the Civil War, Lincoln set into a place the Emancipation Proclamation, which changed the emotions attached to the war. It was no longer about sovereignty; it transformed into a fight…

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    issued the Emancipation Proclamation in 1863, which declared all slaves free.Lincoln was under many pressures while issuing this document, including that the war was the bloodiest, or deadliest, war in our history at the time, so everyone wanted it to end. Also, Abraham Lincoln was the President at the time so everybody was relying on him to make the right decision. This put lots of pressure on LincolnThere is lots of controversy between whether Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation for…

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    of a state. This was the Emancipation Proclamation signed and established by President Abraham Lincoln. The Emancipation Proclamation read "that all persons held as slaves" within the rebellious states "are, and henceforward shall be free.” Abraham Lincoln’s main focus in the creation of this document was to con the Confederate states to give up their fight against the Union and join the United States of America once again. The signing of the Emancipation Proclamation was a significant event…

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    We are pleased to present "The Emancipation Proclamation at 150," an anthology of essays produced by President Lincoln's Cottage, a site of the National Trust for Historic Preservation, in collaboration with the United States Commission on Civil Rights. President Lincoln developed the Emancipation Proclamation while living at the Cottage in the summer of 1862. For many years that fact was recognized and appreciated. A December 1936 article from The Washington Post described a woman’s pilgrimage…

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    The Emancipation Proclamation is a federal proclamation and executive order from president Abraham Lincoln that made all slaves in the United States free from bondage and ownage. Baldwin’s letter is written on the 100 year anniversary of the Emancipation Proclamation. The significance of the timing of his letter is that the anniversary is supposed to be an indication that African Americans have been free for a very long time, but the opposite is true. Blacks are still discriminated against,…

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    most people hear of the Emancipation Proclamation, they tend to believe that it was the document that freed the slaves; however, this document was merely a political ploy by Abraham Lincoln. Lincoln issued the document in late 1862, and it took effect on January 1, 1863. When many look at how and when this document was issued, they often neglect to analyze the document using an economic way of thinking. When evaluated this way, Lincoln’s motives and reasoning for the proclamation, the impacts…

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    The news of President Lincoln signing the Emancipation Proclamation is a very exciting thing for me. I am thrilled because my life as a slave is hard and difficult. As a teenage girl, I am working in the cottonfield from sunrise till sunset. By the end of the night, all I want to do is lie down on my cot. My cot is, not too comfortable or clean. But, I can’t rest, I have to clean this small shelter,pull weeds from the vegetable patch, and wash clothes. Then, I wake up early before sunrise and…

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