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Emancipation Proclamation
Whereas on the 22nd day of September, A.D. 1862, a proclamation
was issued by the President of the United States, containing,
among other things, the following, to wit:
"That on the 1st day of January, A.D. 1863, 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 the military and naval
authority thereof, will recognize and maintain the freedom of such
persons 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.
"That the executive will on the 1st day of January aforesaid,
by proclamation, designate the States and parts of States, if any,
in which the people thereof, respectively, shall then be in
rebellion against the United States; and the fact that any State
or the people thereof shall on that day be in good faith
represented in the Congress of the United States by members
chosen thereto at elections wherein a majority of the qualified
voters of such States shall have participated shall, in the
absence of strong countervailing testimony, be deemed conclusive
evidence that such State and the people thereof are not then
in rebellion against the United States."
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 supressing said
rebellion, do, on this 1st day of January, A.D. 1863, and in
accordance with my purpose so to do, publicly proclaimed for the
full period of one hundred days from the first day above mentioned,
order and designate as the States and parts of States wherein the
people thereof, respectively, are this day in rebellion against
the United States the following, to wit:
Arkansas, Texas, Louisiana (except the parishes of St. Bernard,
Palquemines, Jefferson, St. John, St. Charles, St. James, Ascension,
Assumption, Terrebone, Lafourche, St. Mary, St. Martin, and Orleans,
including the city of New Orleans), Mississippi, Alabama, Florida,
Georgia, South Carolina, North Carolina, and Virginia (except the
forty-eight counties designated as West Virginia, and also the
counties of Berkeley, Accomac, Morthhampton, Elizabeth City, York,
Princess Anne, and Norfolk, including the cities of Norfolk and
Portsmouth), and which excepted parts are for the present left
precisely as if this proclamation were not issued.
And by virtue of the power and for the purpose aforesaid, 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, will
recognize and maintain the freedom of said persons.
And I hereby enjoin upon the people so declared to be free to
abstain from all violence, unless in necessary self-defence; and
I recommend to them that, in all case when 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 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.
Monday, March 4th 2013 at 1:31PM
Steve Williams
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no it did not:
Myth #8: The Emancipation Proclamation freed all black people.
Did the Emancipation Proclamation free all the slaves in the United States? Many people think it did, but the Emancipation Proclamation did not free all the slaves in the United States and here is why. The Emancipation Proclamation didn't actually free any slaves because it related only to areas under the control of the Confederacy. The South broke away from the North, and President Lincoln couldn't make slave owners living in the Confederate states of America obey the Emancipation Proclamation. After the Civil War ended and the South became part of the United States again, the South had to obey Lincoln. The Emancipation Proclamation didn't include slaves in the border states and in some southern areas under the North's control, such as Tennessee and parts of Virginia and Louisiana. Although no slaves were actually freed by the Emancipation Proclamation in 1863, it did lead to the 13th Amendment to the Constitution. The 13th Amendment became a law on December 18, 1865, and ended slavery in all parts of the United States.
Punishing the South
Abraham Lincoln, the 16th president of the United States, issued the Emancipation Proclamation, which led to the end of slavery, on January 1, 1863. He issued it because on September 22, 1862, he had warned that if the states of the Confederacy, or South, didn't return to the Union, or North, by January 1, 1863, he would declare their slaves "forever free." The South refused to return to the Union, so Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation.
Emancipation means to free from bondage, the condition of a slave. Proclamation means to announce officially and publicly, or declare. This means that the Emancipation Proclamation means to free from slavery and declare it publicly.
This all happened because the North went to war with the South mainly to reunite the nation, not to end slavery. This war is also known as the Civil War. The North went to war with the South because the 11 states of the Confederacy withdrew from the Union in 1860 and 1861. The main reason they withdrew from the Union is because they feared that Lincoln would take away their right to have black slaves.
During the first half of the war, abolitionists, people who wanted to end slavery, and Union military leaders encouraged Lincoln to create a proclamation freeing the slaves. They thought that such a policy would help the North because slaves were helping the Confederacy greatly. Slaves helped by doing their master's farming and factory work which made Whites available for the Confederate Army. Lincoln once said, "if slavery is not wrong, nothing is wrong," so Lincoln agreed with the abolitionists' view of slavery. He was afraid of losing the votes of non-abolitionists, though, if he fought to end slavery.
Earlier in the war, Lincoln thought that if he freed the slaves he would divide the North from the South. He feared that the four slave-owning border states, which were Delaware, Kentucky, Maryland, and Missouri, would withdraw from the Union if he said yes to such a policy. In the Lincoln-Douglas presidential debates in 1858, Lincoln had said that he did not want to try to end slavery in places where it already existed. When he took office as president on March 4, 1861, he repeated this saying.
Freeing Slaves to Win the War
In July, 1862, the war was going badly for the North, so Congress passed a law freeing all Confederate slaves who came into the North's lines. This helped the North by allowing the former slaves to join the Union Army and help the North win the Civil War. Around that time, Lincoln decided to try to free the South's slaves because the North was losing the Civil War, but he waited until the Union had a military victory. The reason Lincoln did this was because Secretary of State William H. Seward feared that with recent Northern military defeats the proclamation might be looked on as a "last shriek on the retreat." People might think it was a last minute desperate measure because the Union was losing. Because of this, Lincoln put the proclamation aside to await a victory. On September 17, 1862 the wait was over. In the Battle of Antietam, or Sharpsburg, Union General George B. McClellan stopped Confederate General Robert E. Lee's attack on the North. Even though Antietam wasn't prearranged, it was good enough for Lincoln's purpose.
The Abolitionists were right that the Emancipation Proclamation would help the Union win the war. It helped the Union by reinforcing the North's war effort and weakening the South's. The South was hurt by the Emancipation Proclamation because it discouraged France and Britain from entering the war. Those two countries depended on the Confederacy, or South, to supply them with cotton, so the South hoped that they would fight on their side. Most French and British citizens were against slavery, though, so when the proclamation made the war a fight against slavery, France and Britain gave their support to the Union.
At the end of the war, over 500,000 slaves had escaped to freedom. Most of the slaves worked for the armed forces as laborers, people who wouldn't fight but instead cleaned or cooked. They also joined the Union Army or Navy. Approximately 200,000 black sailors and soldiers helped the North win the war.
The Emancipation Proclamation didn't free any slaves at the time it was issued. It was issued only because Lincoln told the South that if they didn't return to the Union by January 1, 1863 their slaves would be free forever. Lincoln didn't actually have the power to free the slaves in the South because it was not under his control. The Emancipation Proclamation wasn't issued just to help free the slaves, but to help the North win the war. Fortunately, this strategy worked and when the Civil War ended, the Emancipation Proclamation finally began to free slaves.
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Monday, March 4th 2013 at 3:10PM
Cynthia Merrill Artis
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Hello!
Is this a way of looking back instead of looking forward? What if we were sovereign free in our own country because to be free you must have or is soon betting a country what would be some of the things you would do first?
What say you?
Monday, March 4th 2013 at 3:35PM
Harry Watley
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Harry,
True history allows society to more clearly see the way forward. No one is backing your way forward, or am I wrong about this? Answer the question if you want, but I will not comment further to you on this blog.
Monday, March 4th 2013 at 4:05PM
Steve Williams
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slavery was a paganChristian SANCTIONED event 1492-1864(1964)
----- 372 YEARS OLD at the time of President Abraham Lincolns' Emancipation Proclamation
------Abraham Lincoln was not a paganChristian Leader he was President of the United States
------No themSlaves IS still SLAVES
Monday, March 4th 2013 at 9:54PM
powell robert
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sweetIrma asks------"ANYONE KNOW THE DEFINITION OF SLAVERY?..."
well i, robertPowell, can only comment on what i believe slaverAmericana 1492-1864(1964) SEEMED to BE.......shortVersion(or kingJamesVersion)
slaverAmericana 1492-1864(1964) WAS --- murder, torture, kidnapping, raping, rapping, pedophilia in the NAME of latinJesus for 500+ years on the NORTH AMERICAN continent....
Tuesday, March 5th 2013 at 9:31AM
powell robert
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Thanks for all the comments. Please can you post your comments on this page? Thanks.
http://www.squidoo.com/black-history-the-e...
No need to post a copy of the Emancipation Proclamation, as I am sure I have already linked to it.
Personally, I am not interested in getting into "heaven" as "heaven" is still on the mundane plane, it is still on the Wheel of Life. The goal is to get off the wheel.
Thursday, March 21st 2013 at 7:09AM
Zhana Books
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Hello to all,
Here is a parallel question that is the same; did Pharaoh free the Hebrew slaves? The answer is NO in both cases.
Black Americans are still not free. So, Lincoln did not free Black Americans. Black Americans must be freed the same way the Children of Israel were freed. The Children of Israel were freed by God am I right.
We need to stop playing games with reality and use analytical thinking.
Thursday, March 21st 2013 at 9:23AM
Harry Watley
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QUESTION...DID AMERICA HAVE A CIVIL WAR???...
WHAT WAS THE WAR ABOUT?!? (NUP!!!)
AND, ON TOP OF EVERYTHING ELSE, DID LINCOLN HAVE TOPUT THE FREE OF SLAVE STATES INTO SLAVERY SO HE COULD 'FREE THEM AS WELL...IT WAS EVEN BACK THENCALLED ...'THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA'...
Thursday, April 10th 2014 at 6:47PM
ROBINSON IRMA
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BOY OH BOY THOSE BLACKS WILL DO EVERY THING TO NOT HAVE TO DO FOR THEMSELVES WANT THEY????????????????????!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!?????????????(N...U...P!!!)
Thursday, April 10th 2014 at 6:47PM
ROBINSON IRMA
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MAYBE ONE DAY WE WILL BE ABLE TO GET OVER THE MYTH OF SLAVERY IN AMERICA...OR JUST GO LETBISHOP T.D. JAKES EXPLAIN TO YOU ABOUT HOW AND WHY ALL AFRICANS WHO DID NOT GO THROUGHT CHATEL SLAVERY WILL NEVER BE ABLE TO ENTER HEAVEN...WHICH MEANS MOST BLACKS HAVE A MAJOR, MAJOR PROBLEM...
WORD UP...AND BEFORE YOU CONTINUE ON WITH THIS MYTH YOU HAD BETTER COME TO THE REALITY THAT WE WERE NOT EVEN HUMAN WHEN THESE KINDLY CHRISTIANS CAME TO SAVE US AS MANY STILL DON'T BELIEVE WE ARE HUMAN...
YET... AND YOU JUST MIGHT LIKE TO SEE THE THE BUSH FAMILY FOUNDATION IS STILL CARRYING ON A STUDY LIKE THIS AT UC BERKELEY THEY WERE IN TEH 70S & 80S ...PROPER EDUCATION IS ALWAYS A GOOD THING...GOES A LONG WAYS TO PROVE WE ARE NOT 'ALL' GOD'S CHILDREN...
ISN'T THAT THE MAIN PURPOSE OF THE AVERAGE REILIGION... OF OUR AMERICAN EDUCATION SYSTEM ??? AND WHAT IS BETTER THAN THAT IN CHRISTIAN AMERICA????????????????!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!????????????? LOL!!! (SMILE)
Thursday, April 10th 2014 at 6:47PM
ROBINSON IRMA
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ANYONE KNOW THE DEFINITION OF SLAVERY?...WHAT WAS THE HOURLY WAGES OF SHARE CROPPERS IN 1865 AND HERE IN 2013...AND WHY DID A FEW YEARS AGO FARM WORKERS HAD TO TAKE THE STATE OF CA. TO COURT TO GET PAID???
I DO BELIEVE RESIDENCES IN F. WERE THE LAST TO BE ARRESTED FOR 'SLAVERY' A FEW YEARS AGO...OH WELL, THOU SHALL OT BARE FALSE WITNESS IS NOT ONE OF THE ...W-H-A-T...?????????????????????????!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!????????? (S-M-I-L-E)
YOU KNOW ABOUT THE LITTLE PROBLEAMS MITT ROMNEY AND NEG WITHMAN HAD WHEN THEY FIRST STARTED TO RUN FOR GOV AND PRES...WITH THEIR 'UNPAID HELP????????????????????????? AGAIN PROPER EDUCATIO NOT NEEDED/ WANTED IN AMERICA...
Thursday, April 10th 2014 at 6:47PM
ROBINSON IRMA
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