 | Edward T. Cotham - Biography & Autobiography - 2009 - 224 pages
...receiving slaves who came within Federal lines: And I further declare and make known that such persons of suitable condition will be received into the armed...places, and to man vessels of all sorts in said service. In practice this meant that many escaped slaves were assigned to perform some of the hardest and most... | |
 | Steven Fantina - American essays - 2006 - 254 pages
...declaring that the slaves shall be free, he concludes with the following paragraph: "And upon this act, sincerely believed to be an act of justice warranted...upon military necessity, I invoke the considerate 97 It would be difficult to conceive of a broader appeal to more varied kinds of men and phases of... | |
 | David Brion Davis - Social Science - 2006 - 464 pages
...recruitment of black soldiers and sailors, they were originally assigned the limited role of maintaining "garrison forts, positions, stations, and other places,...and to man vessels of all sorts in said service." By the spring of 1863, however, Lincoln had overcome his initial reservations about committing black... | |
 | Harold Holzer, Edna G. Medford, Frank J. Williams - History - 2006 - 180 pages
...when allowed, to labor faithfully, for wages. 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 and defend forts, positions, stations, and other places, and to man vessels of all sorts in said service.... | |
 | Juan Jose Battle, Michael Bennett, Anthony J. Lemelle, Jr. - Social Science - 308 pages
...allowed, they labor faithfully for reasonable wages And I further declare and make known that such persons of suitable condition will be received into the armed service of the United States. . . As many abolitionists noted, all enslaved people of African descent were not freed, only those... | |
 | William Wells Brown - African American soldiers - 2007 - 401 pages
...labor faithfully for reasonable wages. " And \ further declare and make known, that such persons, if in suitable condition, will be received into the armed...be an act of justice warranted by the Constitution, and upon military necessity, I invoke the considerate judgment of mankind and the gracious favor of... | |
 | Robert Elsemann - 2007 - 140 pages
...they labor faithfully for reasonable wages. And l further declare and make known, that such persons of suitable condition, will be received into the armed...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,... | |
 | Franklin E. Rutledge - Political Science - 2007 - 264 pages
...they labor faithfully for reasonable wages. And I further declare and make known, that such persons of suitable condition, will be received into the armed...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,... | |
 | Burrus Carnahan - History - 2007 - 214 pages
...final proclamation and its predecessors was the president's announcement that slaves freed under it "will be received into the armed service of the United...other places, and to man vessels of all sorts in said service."9 Traditionally, enemy slaves freed during wartime had been actively recruited to fight against... | |
 | Timothy Rasinski, Lorraine Griffith - Education - 2007 - 176 pages
...declare and make known, that such persons of suitable condition, will be received into the armed services of the United States to garrison forts, positions,...places, and to man vessels of all sorts in said service. Excerpts from the Emancipation Proclamation (com.) And upon this act sincerely believed to be an act... | |
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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. 
