 ... 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 and the executive government of the united states including...  Abraham Lincoln and His Presidency - Page 118by Joseph Hartwell Barrett - 1903Full view - About this book
 | Herbert Aptheker - African Americans - 2006 - 298 pages
...of the United States "will recognize and maintain the freedom" of people held in bondage by rebels and "will do no act or acts to repress such persons, or any of them, in any efforts they may make for their actual freedom." On the designated day the president declared such persons free "and that the... | |
 | David Brion Davis - Social Science - 2006 - 464 pages
...message, Lincoln ordered "the military and naval authority" to "recognize and maintain the freedom of such persons, or any of them, in any efforts they may make for their actual freedom" (my emphasis).68 Though Lincoln still included sentences intended to encourage... | |
 | Franklin E. Rutledge - Political Science - 2007 - 264 pages
...then, thenceforward, and forever free; and the Executive Government of the United States, including the military and naval authority thereof, will recognize...persons, or any of them, in any efforts they may make for their actual freedom. That the Executive will, on the first day of January aforesaid, by proclamation,... | |
 | David S. Kidder, Noah D. Oppenheim - Reference - 2007 - 392 pages
...then, thenceforward, and forever free; and the executive government of the United States, including the military and naval authority thereof, will recognize...persons, or any of them, in any efforts they may make for their actual freedom. Prior to the Emancipation Proclamation, the legal status of Southern slaves in... | |
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