Write an Essay about the Abolition of slavery based on the document and outside Document 1aTo the Honorable Counsel & House of Representatives for the State of Massachusetts Bay In General Courtassembled, January 13, 1777:The petition of a great number of Blacks detained in a state of slavery in the bowels of a free & Christian countryhumbly shows that your petitioners apprehend that they have in common with all other men a natural andunalienable right to that freedom which the great parent of the universe that bestowed equally on all mankind... but that were... torn from the embraces of their tender parents from a populous pleasant and plentifulcountry and in violation of laws of nature and of nations and in defiance of all the tender feelings of humanitybrought here to be sold like Beasts of Burden, and like them condemned to slavery for life....... your honors need not to be informed that a life of slavery like that of your petitioners deprived of every socialprivilege of everything requisite to render life even tolerable is far worse than nonexistence....They cannot... butexpress their astonishment that It has never been considered that every principle from which America has actedin the course of their unhappy difficulties with Great Briton pleads stronger than a thousand arguments in favorof your petitioners...They therefore humbly Beseech [ask] your honors to give this petition its due weight and consideration & causean act of the legislature to be passed whereby they may be restored to the enjoyment of that which is the naturalright of all men and their children who were born in this band of biberty may not be held as slaves after theyarrive at the age of twenty one years....Source: Petition to the Massachusetts Assembly by Enslaved Africans fo emancination Now, therefore I, Abraham Lincoln, President of the United States, by virtue of the power In me vested asCommander-in-Chief, of the Army and Navy of the United States in time of actual armed rebellion against theauthority and government of the United States, and as a fit and necessary war measure for suppressing saidrebellion, do, on this first day of January, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty-three,and in accordance with my purpose so to do publicly proclaimed for the full period of one hundred days,from the day first above mentioned, ordekklr and designate as the States and parts of States whereln thepeople thereof respectively, are this day in rebellion against the United States, the following, to wit:Arkansas, Texas, Louisiana, including the City of New Orleans, Mississippi, Alabama, Florida, Georgia, SouthCarolina, North Carolina, and Virginia, (except the forty-eight counties designated as West Virginia, and alsothe counties of Berkley, Accomac, Northampton, Elizabeth City, York, Princess Ann, and Norfolk, including thecities of Norfolk and Portsmouth[)], and which excepted parts, are for the present, left precisely as if thisproclamation were not issued.And by virtue of the power, and for the purpose aforesaid, I do order and declare that all persons held asslaves within said designated States, and parts of States, are, and henceforward shall be free; and that theExecutive government of the United States, including the military and naval authorities thereof, willrecognize and maintain the freedom of said persons.And I hereby enjoin upon the people so declared to be free to abstain from all violence, unless in necessaryself-defence; and I recommend to them that, in all cases when allowed, they labor faithfully for reasonablewages.And I further declare and make known, that such persons of suitable condition, will be received into thearmed service of the United States to garrison forts, positions, stations, and other places, and to man vesselsof all sorts in said service.Done at the City of Washington, this first day of January, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundredand sixty three, and of the Independence of the United States of America the eighty-seventh.By the President: ABRAHAM LINCOLNWILLIAM H. SEWARD, Secretary of State.

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Slavery, a situation wherein one individual became held through another. A slave has been viewed…