“There is no easy walk to freedom anywhere, and many of us will have to pass through the valley of the shadow of death again and again before we reach the mountaintop of our desires.” This is a quote from Nelson Mandela and connects with the Emancipation Proclamation, and The Abolition of Serfdom in Russia perfectly. America and Russia had a major problem in the mid 1800’s. The problem was something we know very well today, it’s called slavery. When hearing about these two famous documents I have always wondered what problems and conditions did these two documents address, how did the two leaders solve the problem they faced, and the similarities and differences of these two documents.
First, the Emancipation Proclamation went into effect
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“President Lincoln justified the Emancipation Proclamation as a war measure intended to cripple the Confederacy. Being careful to respect the limits of his authority, Lincoln applied the Emancipation Proclamation only to the Southern states in rebellion” (Larkin 1). This meant that slavery was going to be abolished in the majority of the South. Those areas that weren't allowed to have slaves where, “Arkansas, Texas, Louisiana, (except the Parishes of St. Bernard, Plaquemines, Jefferson, St. John, St. Charles, St. James Ascension, Assumption, Terrebonne, Lafourche, St. Mary, St. Martin, and Orleans, including the City of New Orleans) Mississippi, Alabama, Florida, Georgia, South Carolina, North Carolina, and Virginia, (except the forty-eight counties designated as West Virginia, and also the counties of Berkley, Accomac, Northampton, Elizabeth City, York, Princess Ann, and Norfolk, including the cities of Norfolk and Portsmouth” (Lincoln 1). Even though slavery wasn't completely abolished, this played as a key stepping stone. December 18, 1865 was when slavery was completely illegal in America. However, if it wasn't for the Emancipation Proclamation we could still possibly have slavery …show more content…
When Alexander was welcomed to the throne he had a major problem he had to deal with right away. His military was very weak and that was something his people feared. However, he wasn't going to let that define him, and that’s why he came up with the Emancipation Manifesto. Since Russia just got defeated in the war he had to make something positive out of losing a war. His plan was to free the Serfs. He thought that this would help restore the Russian army. Alexander also made it very difficult for serf owners to come up with valuable reason to not free the Serf population. Alexander was very smart and, “he had made it very difficult for them either to resist his command or to blame him if their plans were subsequently shown to be faulty. This was evidence of the remarkable power and influence that the tsar exercised as absolute ruler” (Lynch 2). The landowners had to deal with the fact they weren't going to have any workers, but were okay with it because they still retained all of their land. Alexander made committees to make sure his plan would work, but another problem was how long it took. He had thousand of people sit in on these committees to help him draft a plan that would be reasonable to free this many people. When it was finally presented, in 1861, the Emancipation statute, which accompanied the Proclamation, contained 22 separate measures whose details filled 360 closely printed pages of
Abraham Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation was the most influential part of his presidency as it expanded the goals of the Civil War and abolished slavery. The original focus of the Civil war was not to abolish slavery but to preserve the Union Army. Following the Union Army’s win at war and the abolition of slavery, black people were now allowed to join this army. Following Lincoln’s speech, the 13th amendment was put into place by making slavery illegal. It is evident that the Emancipation Proclamation was the most influential and powerful part of Lincoln’s presidency.
When the Civil War began in 1861, the issue of slavery was not the central focus of the war effort on the side of the Union. While it was still important to many in the North, the main war aim of the Union side was to preserve the Union and make sure it remained intact. As the war dragged on and more soldiers died on both sides, Lincoln realized he would need to entirely cripple the already weak Confederate economy, and he did this by making the Emancipation Proclamation, which became effective January 1, 1863. This executive order stated that all slaves in states currently in open rebellion against the United States were free from slavery. By doing this, he caused African Americans in slave states to cross into Union territory and into
Southern states began to withdraw from the union, even though Lincoln was personally opposed to slavery the process of separation had begun and a war was inevitable. During his presidency he issued The Emancipation Proclamation on January 1, 1863. Freeing all slaves living in area that are in rebellion. Which mean Union Army officers did not have to report runaway slaves because newly captured slaves were considered free; but not until after the Union won the war and the Thirteenth Amendment to the Constitution was declared ratified on December 1865 which officially freed and ended slavery in the United
Another problem was that it only applied to those who were active rebellion . Neither slavery and involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime when the party would have been convicted appropriate , shall exist within the United States and their jurisdiction. Abraham Lincoln had the emancipation proclamation but it was hard to ensure the
When elected, President Lincoln vowed to prevent the extension of slavery. As a result, the Southerners chose secession, while Northerners believed that the collapse of Union would destroy the possibility of a democratic republican government. This resulted in the Civil War, which lead to the end of slavery in the United States. Throughout the war, there was much debate over whether or not the Civil War was about slavery or the Union. Lincoln first rejected the end of slavery as a goal of the war, but slave escapes in the South bothered Lincoln. The Union’s fate was at stake and Lincoln’s major goal of the war was to save the Union. Lincoln finally surrendered to the pressure of antislavery republicans, making the Civil War mainly about slavery, and seeing slave abolition as a way to end the rebellion and protect the Union. Abraham Lincoln created the proclamation of emancipation in July 1862, which called for an end to slavery. The proclamation was issued on September 22, basing its legal authority on his responsibility to suppress the rebellion and was signed by Lincoln on January 1, 1863. After the war, abolitionists were concerned that the Emancipation Proclamation would be forgotten about, so they pressured the congress to pass a law that would finally abominate slavery. In January 1865 the Congress approved the Thirteenth Amendment to ending slavery, and sent it to the states
Following the outbreak of the Civil War, President Abraham Lincoln believed that the Union could not survive whilst divided on the subject of slavery. Revered by numerous historians, Lincoln’s actions throughout the Civil War created social and political change that would bring the United States of America into a new era of social and cultural reform. In attempt to abolish slavery and weaken the Confederacy, the Emancipation Proclamation redefined the objectives of the Civil War. While successful in gradually abolishing the institution of slavery in the southern states, the Emancipation Proclamation failed to extinguish racial discriminations against the newly freed African-Americans. Indeed, progress had been made, but by using intimidation
Actually, the proclamation freed no slaves. It applied only to Confederate territory, where federal officers could not enforce it. The proclamation did not affect slavery in the loyal Border States. Lincoln repeatedly urged those states to free their slaves, and to pay the owners for their loss. He promised financial help from the federal government for this purpose. The failure of the states to follow his advice was one of his great disappointments.
On January 1, 1863, President Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation in an effort to the end Civil War by taking away the workforce of the South and preventing the intervention of foreign powers. Although the Emancipation Proclamation did not free all slaves in the South, it was a major step in the direction of the abolishment of slavery. Abolitionists in Congress began to push for a more permanent law that abolished slavery everywhere in the United States. On December 6,1865, the 13th Amendment was ratified. It illegalized the institution of slavery in the United States. Thousands of slaves were freed from their masters and allowed to live the lives they wanted for the first time since the were captured. The newly freed slaves
The Civil War is something almost everyone has a general idea about. It is more than a huge part of America’s history and is the central event in America 's historical consciousness. This war, unlike the American Revolution which created the first American states, determined what kind of nation it would be. Though there are many reasons for the cause of the American Civil War, one of the main reasons is the different attitudes the North and the South had toward slavery. In January of 1863, The Emancipation Proclamation was
Abraham Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation on January 1st, 1863. The proclamation declared that all persons held as slaves within the rebellious states from this day on. Before emancipation became a specific union plan, slavery end held in the country remained strong. As late as December 1, 1862, a month before he signed the proclamation, Lincoln had proposed an amendment to U. S constitution that might have allowed slavery to exist in the country until the 1900s. A constitutional amendment approved by Congress in March 1861 that protected slavery where it existed for eternity remained before the state, awaiting
The Proclamation had little impact on slavery. The Proclamation only applied to places where it was under Confederate Control. The Proclamation was condemned in the South and debated in the North. Abolitionists criticized Lincoln for not going far enough. The Proclamation did nothing to free people who were enslaved in the border states. So, slaves in the Confederate states that were controlled by the Union’s force were not affected. Northerners feared that all freed people coming to the North would cause a lot of unemployment. The Northern Africans’ response was way more positive. Abolitionist Frederick Douglas said:
With the Civil War in full swing in 1863, President Lincoln was grappling with a nation divided. Long-standing racial turmoils had finally boiled over in 1861 with the battle of Fort Sumter. The country had been thrown headfirst into bloody battles, culminating most recently with the infamous Battle of Antietam. Antietam allowed the president to issue the most important document of his career with a narrow Union “victory”and an attempt to boost low spirits. As a result, the North secured an advantage when Lincoln announced his intent to free all Confederate slaves with the shocking Emancipation Proclamation. Determined on securing and protecting the Union, Lincoln took a pragmatic approach in issuing the controversial document. A defining moment in American history, it is essential to investigates the reasons and acts leading up to it, the responses it elicited from the nation and the world, and its effects on the country.
Although the Emancipation Proclamation did not end slavery in the nation, it captured the hearts and imagination of millions of Americans and fundamentally transformed the character of the war. After January 1, 1863, every advance of federal troops expanded the domain of freedom. Besides, the Proclamation announced the acceptance of black men into the Union Army and Navy, enabling the liberated to become liberators. By the end of the war, almost 200,000 black soldiers and sailors had fought for the Union and freedom.
The “emancipation proclamations” that Lincoln and Alexander II had similarities and differences. On one hand, both of them believed that the emancipation of the groups oppressed was necessary for the good of their nations. Alexander believed that the emancipation of the serfs will lead to a more productive and happier peasantry, while Lincoln wanted to reunite the nation. On the other hand, Alexander and Lincoln have different reasons for freeing the groups that were oppressed. Alexander clearly recognized the flaws of serfdom and its detrimental effects on Russia, while Lincoln knew that the South’s war effort depended on slave labor, and that freeing the slaves would weaken the South both economically and militarily.
Lincoln had made the Emancipation Proclamation,which banned slavery to the CSA(Confederate States of America)that didn't come back to the Union by Jan 1, 1863. It also named the states it applied to. But it didn't name the boarder states of Kentucky, Missouri, Maryland and Delaware because those states did not actually declare secession so they didn't free any slaves in those states at the time. They also didn't name Tennessee because it was mostly back to the Union by then. Most slaves where not let go immediately but the Act freed thousands of slaves.