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    The Emancipation Proclamation The emancipation proclamation was issued by Abraham Lincoln on January 1‚ 1863‚ during the American Civil War‚ declaring all "slaves within any State‚ or designated part of a State... then... in rebellion‚... shall be then‚ thenceforward‚ and forever free." The states affected were enumerated in the proclamation; specifically exempted were slaves in parts of the South then held by Union armies. Lincoln’s issuance of the Emancipation Proclamation marked a radical

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    From the beginning of the Civil War in 1861‚ President Abraham Lincoln repeatedly stated that his primary objective of the war was not to abolish the institution of slavery‚ but rather to preserve the Union. Lincoln knew that the Constitution protected slavery in any state where the citizens wanted it. As the war progressed‚ the abolition of slavery was seen as a military strategy for the Union army‚ as the newly freed slaves would then fight for the cause of their own freedom. Since

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    The Emancipation Proclamation was an executive order issued by President Abraham Lincoln on January 1‚ 1863‚ as a war measure during the American Civil War‚ to all segments of the Executive branch (including the Army and Navy) of the United States. It proclaimed the freedom of slaves in the ten states that were still in rebellion‚[1] thus applying to 3.1 million of the 4 million slaves in the U.S. at the time. The Proclamation was based on the president’s constitutional authority as commander in

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    Abraham Lincoln and the Emancipation Proclamation The Emancipation Proclamation led to the end of slavery‚ and is one of the most controversial documents in American history. Human slavery was the focus of political conflict in the United States from the 1830s to the outbreak of the Civil War in 1861. Abraham Lincoln‚ the Republican candidate for presidency in 1860‚ personally abhorred slavery and was pledged to prevent it from spreading to western territories. At the same time he believed that

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    On January 1‚ 1863‚ Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation. The Emancipation Proclamation freed all enslaved persons in states under Confederate control. The Emancipation Proclamation changed the course of the war in numerous ways. It is mainly known as a step towards the creation of the thirteenth amendment‚ but it was also used as a war strategy. From the Emancipation Proclamation sprung hope for the Union Army. African Americans had long waited their freedom. The Union Army

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    The Emancipation Proclamation The American Civil War and the ending of slavery through issuing the Emancipation Proclamation are the two crucial events of U.S. history. Perhaps the war would not have occurred if slavery did not exist because it is one of the main reasons that the southerners and northerners got into conflict. However‚ if there was no Civil War and Lincoln did not issue the Emancipation Proclamation declaring the freedom of all slaves in any state of the Confederate States of America

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    to Lit/Comp II Due Date: January 16‚ 2013 On the 150th Anniversary of the Emancipation Proclamation To understand America‚ one must try to understand race. W.E.B. DuBois stated‚ “the problem of the twentieth century is the problem of the color line.” Unfortunately‚ this could be said for the century before and maybe the century afterwards. Your assignment is to read the Emancipation Proclamation by Abraham Lincoln and “My Dungeon Shook” by James Baldwin to help understand this “problem of the

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    in any way the social and political equality of the white and black races." How can this 1858 statement of Abraham Lincoln be reconciled with his 1862 Emancipation Proclamation? After reading this quote‚ how can one think of Abraham Lincoln as the great man he is said to be? It has become very clear that Lincoln was not thinking of blacks as people when he wrote the Emancipation Proclamation. He was thinking of what was right in the eyes of others. He was under pressure to do what the majority

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    Jacob Molho 12/9/16 Jewish Emancipation: The Migration of People‚ Ideas‚ and Mindsets Unique for its time‚ in September of 1480‚ Spain created special religious tribunals to address cases of “heretical depravity”. These tribunals‚ collectively referred to as the Spanish Inquisition‚ sought to eliminate deviation from Catholicism. Jews bore the brunt of these tribunals. They were rarely acquitted of charges levied through the Spanish Inquisition‚ and relative to other “heretics‚” Jews were executed

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    Enlightenment and Emancipation Richard Wagner’s essays‚ "Judaism in Music" and "What is German" does not just cast aside the ideology of Jewish emancipation as stated by Christian Wilhelm von Dohm in "On the Civic Improvement of the Jews". Instead‚ Richard Wagner’s essays outline the struggles with the legacy of the Enlightenment and lead him to promote theories of culture and regeneration that would rewrite those of prior Enlightenment visionaries‚ making those people of Jewish descent seen as

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