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    Analysis Essay on the emancipation of proclamation. The United States of America has had a resentful history on slavery. The African Americans were considered properties to their masters then. It was very much explicit at the constitution convention where the founding fathers took account 3/5 of black persons to be equivalent to three persons. The Southern states were deeply interested in slavery because of their labor on their plantations. The abolition of slavery started in the 1860 when the civil

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    reasons. The fact that he was the head of the Union‚ supported the restriction of slavery‚ alone with his other political views‚ found John Wilkes Booth a hero in many households. Abraham Lincoln is arguably most famous for issuing the Emancipation Proclamation‚ which essentially abolished slavery from nine of ten slave-holding states. It was officially abolished a few months after Lincoln’s death in December of 1865 when the thirteenth amendment was added to the U.S. Constitution. This amendment

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    Was Lincoln’s decision to issue the Emancipation Proclamation a moral or a political decision? Provide a thorough explanation that shows you understand what was going on both politically and socially during this time.  This must be a minimum of 75 words. I think that Abraham Lincolns proclamation of emancipation is both moral and political. It was a moral idea because Lincoln thinks that no man should be a slave because it’s not morally correct. I think that the political aspect is him trying to

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    Calling for military emancipation makes it difficult to declare who actually freed the slaves before the ratification of the thirteenth amendment. The slaves who ran to Union lines were freed with the document‚ but they ran to the military on their own will. Lincoln did not have anything to do with their running away because it has happened for centuries. It is this fact that makes the efficiency of the Emancipation Proclamation questionable. If the document did not remove the slaves from their

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    You have a question that requires a book size answer something we do not have so let me do it this way. Lincoln was reluctant to issue an Emancipation Proclamation but you would have thought from what one is taught in class these days this was his primary concern. He issued the proclamation to save the Union making impossible for foreign Governments to intervene on behalf of the Confederacy. Even though the English supported (indirectly) slavery‚ they like other countries were officially against

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    Lincoln is deemed as a hero‚ he saved the slaves and the United States. Abraham Lincoln changed the United States when he declared the Emancipation Proclamation. The Emancipation Proclamation freed the slaves oppressed in the South. This proclamation changed the United States for the better; it would eventually lead to equal rights for all men. In this proclamation‚ it states‚ “all persons held as slaves…shall be then‚ thenceforward‚ and forever free”

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    with no end in sight‚ Lincoln adopted more ruthless war policies‚ something he had hoped he would not have to do. He instigated martial law‚ property confiscation‚ the emancipation of the slaves in the rebel states‚ the taking on of black troops‚ conscription‚ and scorched-earth warfare. When Lincoln spoke to Congress in December of 1864‚ he enhanced the idea

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    to you concerning the statue that should be given privileged status as the first statue the visitors will see upon entering The Emancipation Proclamation Museum in Washington‚ D. C. The statue that best conveys the meaning of emancipation (“freeing someone from control of another”) is: Abraham Lincoln. Abraham Lincoln was most important in the making of the emancipation. Many say that Abraham Lincoln did not help at all and the slaves would have been freed sooner‚ but that is not completely

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    rest.” He then ran for Senator‚ but he lost the election‚ but he gained a national reputation that won him the Republican Nomination for president in 1860. He built the Republican National Organization. He’s also the one that issued the Emancipation Proclamation that declared to free the slaves that was on January 1‚ 1863. The Civil War was not entirely caused by Lincoln’s election‚ but the election was one of the primary reasons the war broke out the following year. Lincoln’s decision to fight

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    economic reasons. During the beginning of the civil war the north wasn’t looking so good. He tried to implement a policy of emancipation but was unsuccessful. He then started to think about a proclamation. Freeing slaves had some benefits. Lincoln knew that the southern economy was based on slavery and abolishing slavery in the north would destroy the southern economy. Also‚ a proclamation would start the support for the war among northern abolitionists. The freed slaves could also be recruited into the

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