The Emancipation Proclamation

By Compass Point Books Staff, Ann Heinrichs

Subjects: United States. President (1861-1865 : Lincoln), Juvenile literature, Politics and government, African Americans, Nonfiction, Slavery, Emancipation proclamation, Juvenile Nonfiction, Emancipation, United States, Lincoln, abraham, 1809-1865, juvenile literature, United States Civil War, 1861-1865, Slaves, History, Emancipation Proclamation, Lincoln, abraham, 1809-1865

Description: Looks at the political and moral issues that caused President Lincoln to issue the 1863 document that freed many slaves, and at the immediate and long-term consequences of his action.