Before President Lincoln Issued The Emancipation Proclamation,

In school we are taught that Abraham Lincoln freed the slaves. This statement is reinforced continuously throughout our education, beginning from the time we are in elementary school to when we are in high school. However, it’s never really expounded upon when taught. The discussion never goes further than ‘Abraham Lincoln enacted the Emancipation Proclamation and thus freed the slaves’, but is still able to instill the implication that he did so out of his own moral values and that life for ex-slaves was better for it. The truth of the matter is actually the complete opposite. The emancipation proclamation was a purely political decision that instead of truly freeing the slaves, only served to keep them bound.

An example of a presidential executive order which congress did not authorise would be Abraham Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation.

1) What is the Emancipation Proclamation? When is Baldwin’s letter written and what is the significance of the timing of his letter (specifically: what is the situation of African Americans at the time Baldwin wrote the letter?)

Lincoln decided to issue the Emancipation Proclamation because he needed to turn the battle into a moral issue rather than just trying to win back the states lost from the Union. It is known that the North had lost many battles and needed men to fight for the Union. So, Lincoln justified the emancipation to liberate slaves, which give them the chance to fight for the Union. This was proven to be successful, as 200,000 black men joined the Union to fight the confederacy. Moral of the Union was also low, and the Emancipation Proclamation provided the needed public support to help the Union to continue to fight the war. Also, this was done to prevent European forces from recognizing the Confederacy as its own Nation, thus preventing any possible

“I, Abraham Lincoln, President of the united states, by the power in me invested 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 fit and necessary war measure for suppressing said rebellion, do, on this 1st of January, A.D. 1863” (Lincoln). The Anti-Slavery Movement began in the 1830’s and came to an end around the 1870’s. The leaders of the Anti-Slavery Movement that helped the slaves get freedom were Abraham Lincoln who wrote the “Emancipation Proclamation”; William Lloyd Garrison was editor of an abolitionist newspaper and got people involved in what was happening to slaves; Frederick Douglass was an escaped slave who became and important leader; Harriet Tubman she lead slaves escape from slave owners; and William Lloyd Still was a conductor of an underground railroad. The purpose of the Anti-Slavery Movement was to give freedom to all slaves. The title of the speech is “Emancipation Proclamation” and was written by Abraham Lincoln on the 22nd of September 1862, and took affect January 1st, at the White House in Washington, DC. Lincoln wanted equal rights and freedom for all slaves. In presidents Abraham Lincoln’s “Emancipation Proclamation” speech, he motivated his intended audience during this Anti-Slavery Movement by using the rhetorical devices of rhetorical questioning and pathos.

You article was interesting to read because it seems like you were ready to turn your short paper in to a long paper. Also, liked how it lead into week 7 forum because the book did have a lot of information related to your topic. So in your paper did you mention how Lincoln use the Emancipation Proclamation to the Norths advantage? I did my paper on it and he used the emancipation proclamation to weaken the Confederate states. He knew taking them away would limit the amount of troops the south could provide and also strain their supplies.

The Emancipation Proclamation was issued by President Abraham Lincoln in 1863. Lincoln issued this document during the American Civil War. A massive percentage of people believe it was issued solely to end slavery. However, abolishing slavery was never a main goal of the Emancipation Proclamation. The Emancipation Proclamation was issued to gain troops for the union army while destroying the Confederacy’s economy and to prevent foreign nations like England and France from becoming allies with the confederacy.

Slavery started in 1619 when Europeans brought over African slaves to the United States. As time passed, slaves kept working under unfair conditions. No previous president had the determination that Abraham Lincoln held while in office. He would strengthen and unite the country while putting an end to slavery. Prior to Abraham Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation Act, African Americans did not hold any rights; however, once the act was issued three historical events occurred: African Americans were granted freedom along with numerous constitutional rights, the focus of the Civil War was altered, and the country gained support from other countries making the Emancipation Proclamation President Lincoln’s most beneficial act.

The Emancipation Proclamation was an executive order. I think it was very important for Lincoln to start off by identifying himself as the President of the United States before he begins to say anything else. Adding on to that fact he also states he is Commander in Chief to really stress upon that the Emancipation Proclamation was going to try restore the relations with the Union and the Confederate States. He try's to compensate with the Confederate and basically says 'I will not free the slaves from any state that will come back to the Union." But in this case none of them did. So he compensated emancipation for the slave owners willing to sell their slaves to the government.

Slavery has always been viewed as one of the most scandalous times in American history. It may seem that the entire institution of slavery has been categorized as white masters torturing defenseless African Americans. However, not every slave has encountered this experience. In this essay I will focus on the life of two former slaves Harriet Smith and Mr. George Johnson and how in some cases their experience were similar as well as different in other aspects. The negative aspects of slave life were unquestionably heinous and for that reason especially, it is also important to also reveal the lives of slaves whom were treated fairly and with respect.

When you think of slavery and how the experience of being a slave must have been like, you might think of picking cotton, or a cruel overseer who lashed slaves regularly. And while it’s true that many slaves experienced something along these lines, the slave narratives of the library of Congress illustrate that every slave’s story is a little different. The story of Solomon Northup, portrayed in his book 12 Years A Slave, is one much different from other slave narratives, such as the story of Amos Gadsden. The two stories differ in the way the stories are told, the men’s experiences as slaves and in their slaveowners.

The Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, An American Slave details the progression of a slave to a man, and thus, the formation of his identity. The narrative functions as a persuasive essay, written in the hopes that it would successfully lead to “hastening the glad day of deliverance to the millions of [his] brethren in bonds” (Douglass 331). As an institution, slavery endeavored to reduce the men, women, and children “in bonds” to a state less than human. The slave identity, according to the institution of slavery, was not to be that of a rational, self forming, equal human being, but rather, a human animal whose purpose is to work and obey the whims of their “master.” For these reasons, Douglass articulates a distinction

The film 12 Years a Slave, an adaptation of the 1853 autobiography by a slave named Solomon Northup, depicts his everyday life after his rights and freedoms are ripped away. Through the unpleasant slave auction scenes to the sickening slave punishments, 12 Years a Slave is a heartbreaking story that unfortunately conveys the harsh truth on the issues surrounding slavery. Consequently, during the film there are many themes and events that trigger different thoughts and reactions varying between viewers, and importantly a better understanding of Solomon Northup’s story and slavery itself.

After reading Solomon Northup's Twelve Years A Slave, I was overwhelmed with his experience. He was born a free man in New York in 1808. In 1841 he was tricked, captured, and sold into slavery in Washington, D.C. Throughout his book, Solomon goes into details describing his life as a slave, which validates our critique of slavery. As abolitionists, it is our duty to do something about slavery. Although, as abolitionists, we have a history of disagreements among us, it time to put a stop to our arguments and start fighting for something we all believe in - to abolish slavery. While the growing cotton economy has made slavery more attractive than ever before to most southern people, slavery has to be abolished based on these reasons:

During the antebellum era, issues of race and equality persisted to plague social progress in the United States. Instrumental in leading the assault against women and African Americans, white slave owning male in the American antebellum South reign supreme in both the private and public spheres respectively. Although that is not to suggest that African Americans held any real power within the public sphere, instead the African Americans depicted in the movie, Twelve Years a Slave, were used as tangible property. As tangible property, the masters in the movie used their slaves to gain social perfection within the public sphere. Women, however, were purely relegated to the private sphere. Twelve Years a Slave did an exemplary job of expanding the notion of a women and slaves as intellectual and physical property within the broader construct of American antebellum society.