Category: Feature

Emancipation Proclamation Unlike many abolitionists, President Lincoln understood he couldn’t eliminate slavery without first saving the union. View the feature in its entirety at: Mr. Lincoln and Freedom

Emancipation Proclamation – Preparation for Draft Proclamation Between March and July of 1862, President Lincoln advocated compensated emancipation of slaves living in Border States. View the feature in its entirety at: Mr. Lincoln and Freedom

The Chicago Ministers There is not one of you who would not see the country ruined, if you could turn out Seward. View the feature in its entirety at: Mr. Lincoln and Freedom

Draft Proclamation ‘Wherever the Union armies penetrated, they abolished servitude, as Lincoln put it, by mere ‘friction and abrasion.’ View the feature in its entirety at: Mr. Lincoln and Freedom

Domestic Reaction Bells rang out their joyous peals over all New England and over New York, over the mountains of Pennsylvania, across the prairies of the West, even to the infant settlements skirting the base of the Rocky Mountains. View the feature in its entirety at: Mr. Lincoln and Freedom

Military Necessity President Lincoln was clear that there were measures he could constitutionally take as the Union’s commander-in-chief that could not constitutionally be taken by Congress. View the feature in its entirety at: Mr. Lincoln and Freedom

Preparation for Final Proclamation Pressure grew on President Lincoln during December 1862. View the feature in its entirety at: Mr. Lincoln and Freedom

Final Proclamation: January 1, 1863 Thursday, January 1, 1863, was a bright crisp day in the nation’s capital. View the feature in its entirety at: Mr. Lincoln and Freedom

Impact of Proclamation Certainly more than any other document or decision in American history, it was recognized by whites and Negroes themselves as the symbol of freedom. View the feature in its entirety at: Mr. Lincoln and Freedom

Reconstruction Massachusetts Senator Charles Sumner presented his ideas of “state suicide” in resolutions he presented to Congress in February 1862. View the feature in its entirety at: Mr. Lincoln and Freedom