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The Emancipation Proclamation
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Brendan January |
Tells the story of the document which led eventually to the passage of the Thirteenth Amendment and relates the role of President Lincoln in freeing the slaves. |
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The Emancipation Proclamation
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Compass Point Books Staff,Ann Heinrichs |
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. |
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Children of the Emancipation
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Wilma King |
Explains how the nearly four million slaves and nearly half a million free blacks gained freedom and basic rights as citizens, following Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation. |
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Lincoln's Hundred Days
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Louis P. Masur |
"The time has come now," Abraham Lincoln told his cabinet as he presented the preliminary draft of a "Proclamation of Emancipation." Lincoln's effort to end slavery has been controversial since its i… |
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Lincoln and the Emancipation Proclamation in American history
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David M. Holford |
Examines the history of the Emancipation Proclamation, showing its creation as a war measure designed to bring the southern states back to the Union and discussing its effectiveness in freeing the sl… |
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Freedom national
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James Oakes |
Freedom National is a groundbreaking history of emancipation that joins the political initiatives of Lincoln and the Republicans in Congress with the courageous actions of Union soldiers and runaway … |
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Forever Free
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Dorothy Sterling |
Describes the events leading up to the signing of the Emancipation Proclamation that freed over four million slaves in the United States. |
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