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" I do order and declare 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 the United States, including the military and naval authorities thereof,... "
The Life and Public Services of Abraham Lincoln ...: Together with His State ... - Page 260
by Henry Jarvis Raymond, Francis Bicknell Carpenter - 1865 - 808 pages
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Juneteenth: A Celebration of Freedom

Charles Andrew Taylor, Charles A. Taylor - Juvenile Nonfiction - 2002 - 40 pages
...States and parts of States are, and henceforward shall be free; and that the Executive Government of the United States, including the military and naval authorities...to abstain from all violence, unless in necessary self-defense. And I recommend to them in all cases when allowed, to labor faithfully for reasonable...
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Tempered Strength: Studies in the Nature and Scope of Prudential Leadership

Ethan M. Fishman - Business & Economics - 2002 - 248 pages
...of the act also prudently discourages wanton violence as a measure of its legal and moral propriety: "And I hereby enjoin upon the people so declared to...to abstain from all violence, unless in necessary self-defense." Even if it was constitutional (legally authorized), was emancipation politically expedient?...
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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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Our Documents: 100 Milestone Documents from the National Archives

United States. National Archives and Records Administration - History - 2006 - 257 pages
...and parts of States, are, and henceforward shall be free; and that the Executive government of the United States, including the military and naval authorities...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...
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Black Union Soldiers in the Civil War

Hondon B. Hargrove - History - 2003 - 274 pages
...and parts of States are, and henceforward shall be, free; and that the Executive Government of the United States, including the military and naval authorities...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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Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation: The End of Slavery in America

Allen C. Guelzo - Biography & Autobiography - 2004 - 374 pages
...and parts of States, are, and henceforward shall be free; and that the Executive government of the United States, including the military and naval authorities...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...
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The Most Fearful Ordeal: Original Coverage of the Civil War by Writers and ...

History - 2004 - 556 pages
...of States are, and henceforward, shall be FREE, and that the Executive Government of the United 226 States, including the military and naval authorities...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...
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Into the Land of Freedom: African Americans in Reconstruction

Meg Greene - Juvenile Nonfiction - 2004 - 124 pages
...and parts of States, are, and henceforward shall be free; and that the Executive government of the United States, including the military and naval authorities...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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The Rise of Aggressive Abolitionism: Addresses to the Slaves

Stanley Harrold - Political Science - 268 pages
...their indecisiveness concerning black violence in behalf of freedom. On the one hand, Lincoln writes, "I hereby enjoin upon the people so declared to be...to abstain from all violence, unless in necessary self-defense." On the other, he announces that enslaved men "of suitable conditions, will be received...
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