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... SLAVERY NEWSPAPERS , 221 . SLAVERY AND RELIGIOUS DENOMINATIONS , 222-223 . EMANCIPATION , 223-225 . FREEDMEN'S BUREAU , 225 . FREE AND SLAVE NEGRO POPULATION , 1790 to 1860 , 225-226 . DATE OF ABOLITION OF SLAVERY IN VARIOUS AMERICAN ...
... SLAVERY NEWSPAPERS , 221 . SLAVERY AND RELIGIOUS DENOMINATIONS , 222-223 . EMANCIPATION , 223-225 . FREEDMEN'S BUREAU , 225 . FREE AND SLAVE NEGRO POPULATION , 1790 to 1860 , 225-226 . DATE OF ABOLITION OF SLAVERY IN VARIOUS AMERICAN ...
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... Slavery - Slave Trade , 473 ; Slavery in Particular States , 474 ; Economic and Social Conditions in the South , 474 ; Abolition , 475 ; Biographies , Anti - Slavery Men , 475 ; Slave Narratives , 476 ; Pro - Slavery Discussions , 476 ...
... Slavery - Slave Trade , 473 ; Slavery in Particular States , 474 ; Economic and Social Conditions in the South , 474 ; Abolition , 475 ; Biographies , Anti - Slavery Men , 475 ; Slave Narratives , 476 ; Pro - Slavery Discussions , 476 ...
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... slavery in the United States a- bolished , was adopted . It is not generally recognized that the Emanci- pation ... slaves who were " for the present left precisely as though this proclamation was not issued . " The decree of December ...
... slavery in the United States a- bolished , was adopted . It is not generally recognized that the Emanci- pation ... slaves who were " for the present left precisely as though this proclamation was not issued . " The decree of December ...
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... slavery has been truly wonderful . Less than two generations ago he was thrust into citizenship , not only an unlettered but an absolutely illiterate man . He did not start with the aspirations or solid ambitions of a man in whose veins ...
... slavery has been truly wonderful . Less than two generations ago he was thrust into citizenship , not only an unlettered but an absolutely illiterate man . He did not start with the aspirations or solid ambitions of a man in whose veins ...
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... slavery , to the children of their masters . Is it a sincere expression of gratitude ? Indeed , this is the question which must be the test of the value of any memorial - is it sincere ? If we , the white people of the South , are ...
... slavery , to the children of their masters . Is it a sincere expression of gratitude ? Indeed , this is the question which must be the test of the value of any memorial - is it sincere ? If we , the white people of the South , are ...
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Page 224 - Navy of the United States in time of actual armed rebellion against the authority and government of the United States, and as a fit and necessary war measure for suppressing said rebellion, do, on this first day of January, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty-three...
Page 224 - That on the first day of January, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty-three, all persons held as slaves within any State or designated part of a State, the people whereof shall then be in rebellion against the United States, shall be then, thenceforward, and forever free...
Page 224 - And I further declare and make known that such persons of suitable condition will be received into the armed service of the United States to garrison forts, positions, stations, and other places, and to man vessels of all sorts in said service. And upon this act, sincerely believed to be an act of justice, warranted by the Constitution upon* military necessity, I invoke the considerate judgment of mankind and the gracious favor of Almighty God.
Page 223 - I, Abraham Lincoln, President of the United States of America, and Commander-in-Chief of the Army and Navy thereof, do hereby proclaim and declare that hereafter, as heretofore, the war will be prosecuted for the object of practically restoring the constitutional relation between the United States and each of the States and the people thereof in which States that relation is or may be suspended or disturbed.
Page 223 - Also to the ninth and tenth sections of an act entitled "An Act to Suppress Insurrection, to Punish Treason and Rebellion, to Seize and Confiscate Property of Rebels, and for Other Purposes," approved July 17, 1862, and which sections are in the words and figures following: Sec.
Page 236 - And I do further proclaim, declare, and make known, that whenever, in any of the States of Arkansas, Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Tennessee, Alabama, Georgia, Florida, South Carolina, and North Carolina, a number of persons not less than one-tenth in number of the votes cast in such State at the Presidential election...
Page 224 - Whereas, on the twenty-second day of September, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty-two, a proclamation was issued by the President of the United States, containing, among other things, the following, to wit: "That on the first day of January, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and...
Page 232 - States; and such citizens, of every race and color, without regard to any previous condition of slavery or involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall have the same right, in every State and Territory in the United States...
Page 21 - Beyond this place of wrath and tears Looms but the Horror of the shade, And yet the menace of the years Finds and shall find me unafraid. It matters not how strait the gate, How charged with punishments the scroll, I am the master of my fate : I am the captain of my soul.
Page 224 - Now, therefore, I, ABRAHAM LINCOLN, President of the United States, by virtue of the power in me vested as Commander-in-Chief of the Army and Navy of the United States in time of actual armed rebellion against the authority and Government of the United States, and as a fit and necessary war measure for suppressing said rebellion...