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The Lincoln Memorial: A Record of the Life, Assassination, and Obsequies of ... - Page 44
edited by - 1865 - 288 pages
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Life of Abraham Lincoln: For the Young Man and the Sabbath School

William Cunningham Gray - 1868 - 214 pages
...that all persons held as slaves within said designated States and parts of States ARE AND HENCEFORWARD SHALL BE FREE, and that the Executive Government of...to abstain from all violence, unless in necessary self-defense ; and I recommend them that, in all cases, when allowed, they labor faithfully for reasonable...
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History of the American Civil War, Volume 1

John William Draper - United States - 1868 - 628 pages
...military and naval authorities turn their freedom. ,,•>..•,•, • -, . . . x , /, -, n thereof, will recognize and maintain the freedom of said persons....hereby enjoin upon the people so declared to be free to Recommendations abstain from all violence unless in necessary sellto the slaves. defense; and I recommend...
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History of the American Civil War: Containing the events from the ...

John William Draper - United States - 1868 - 630 pages
...including the military and naval authorities talu their freedom. • •« ' • i. /.-, * thereof, will recognize and maintain the freedom of said persons....hereby enjoin upon the people so declared to be free to Recommendations abstain from all violence unless in necessary selfto the slaves. defense ; and I recommend...
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History of the Thirty-ninth Congress of the United States

William Horatio Barnes - United States - 1868 - 726 pages
...States and parts of States therein designated, were and thenceforward should be free; and, further, that the Executive Government of the United States,...including the military and naval authorities thereof, would recognize and maintain the freedom of such persons. This guarantee has been rendered especially...
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Focus on World History: The First Global Age and the Age of Revolution

Kathy Sammis - Education - 2002 - 148 pages
...acts to repress such persons, or any of them, in any efforts they may make for their actual freedom And I hereby enjoin upon the people so declared to...to abstain from all violence, unless in necessary self-defense; and I recommend to them that, in all cases when allowed, they labor faithfully for reasonable...
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Reconstituting the American Renaissance: Emerson, Whitman, and the Politics ...

Jay Grossman - History - 2003 - 292 pages
...order and declare that all persons held as slaves within said designated States, are, and henceforward shall be free; and that the Executive government of...allowed, they labor faithfully for reasonable wages. (Lincoln 425, emphasis added) How striking that so significant a document in the period's unfolding...
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Black Union Soldiers in the Civil War

Hondon B. Hargrove - History - 2003 - 274 pages
...persons held as slaves within the said designated States and parts of States are, and henceforward shall be, free; and that the Executive Government...to abstain from all violence, unless in necessary self-defense; and I recommend to them that, in all cases when allowed, they labor faithfully for reasonable...
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Into the Land of Freedom: African Americans in Reconstruction

Meg Greene - Juvenile Nonfiction - 2004 - 124 pages
...all persons held as slaves within said designated States, and parts of States, are, and henceforward shall be free; and that the Executive government of...to abstain from all violence, unless in necessary self-defense; and I recommend to them that, in all cases when allowed, they labor faithfully for reasonable...
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The Rebellious Slave: Nat Turner in American Memory

Scot French - Biography & Autobiography - 2004 - 400 pages
...clearly agonized over the prospect of inciting rebellion. In a draft of the proclamation, he wrote: "I hereby enjoin upon the people so declared to be...when allowed, they labor faithfully for reasonable wages."124 While Northern critics questioned the constitutionality and practicality of the proclamation,...
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Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation: The End of Slavery in America

Allen C. Guelzo - Biography & Autobiography - 2004 - 374 pages
...authorities would simply recognize and maintain the freedom of said persons. The Proclamation would then enjoin upon the people so declared to be free to abstain...allowed, they labor faithfully for reasonable wages.^ Otherwise, the final draft simply executed the threat contained in the preliminary Emancipation Proclamation....
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