Emancipation Proclamation Essay

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    reflected on the Emancipation Proclamation: a presidential proclamation and executive order issued by President Abraham Lincoln on January 1, 1863. It purported to change the federal legal status, which was complexed of crooked white supremacist; the proclamation was mean to remove more than three million African-American enslaved people in order for them to become apart of society as a equal human being. More importantly those enslaved in designated southern areas. The proclamation was meant to…

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    rights or their rights aren’t as equal as men’s and so on. But, the evolution of equality is worth learning about, the different types of dreams, equality before the law and social equality. In 1863, Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation. The Proclamation said “ that all persons held as slaves” within the rebellious states”are and henceforward shall be free.” Abraham Licoln…

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    president. Lincoln had very controversial views about slavery for his time. Lincoln starts out his career saying he has an “anti-slavery” opinion. This only means that he was against slavery expanding, and he actually never spoke about complete emancipation during his entire lifetime. For example in 1855 Lincoln writes a letter to his friend named Joshua Speed that says how much he hates slavery but he ends the letter by summarizing…

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    Abraham Lincoln has played important role in the beginning of The Civil War. Abraham Lincoln was the 16th president of the United States, he prevented the separation of the Union and not only won the Civil War, but also brought freedom and emancipation to all the Slaveries in the Untied States. Lincoln was born in a ordinary peasant’s family in Kentucky at Feb 12th 1809, he started to learn how to read and write until he was fifteen years old. He graduated with primary school degree,…

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    confiscate any property from the Confederate states, and as slaves were considered property, they were taken as well. The main goal of these acts was to free the slaves located in the Confederacy, and they gradually allowed for a more powerful form of emancipation just months later. After the Union victory at the Battle of Antietam, Lincoln…

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    Baptist minister and civil rights activist, Martin Luther King Jr., in his speech, “I Have a Dream,” asserts that African Americans did not have the freedom to exercise the unalienable rights of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness granted to them by the constitution because of abhorrent racism. King supports his claim by illustrating the deplorable discrimination black people faced through the use of metaphorical language. He also employs anaphora to suggest that a united front, united…

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    one example of logos in his speech is when he mentions the Emancipation Proclamation that Lincoln signed 100 years before. The Emancipation Proclamation declared slaves free and that blacks were to no longer to be treated like property. King utilizes this piece of evidence to show that even Lincoln, one of the most respected men in US history, supported the freeing of blacks, forming an ethos appeal through the logos of Lincoln’s Emancipation…

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    words of the constitution. He was ready to take a more dictatorial role among the people. Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation was introduced, but it was not what it supposedly appeared to be. It was, in essence, a document that would lead us to the end of slavery. According to Lincoln, his proclamation was just a war measure, and it did not mean anything about ending slavery. The Emancipation Proclamation caused problems across our land. There were hard feelings, race riots, and even deaths. The…

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