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    of William Shakespeare’s classics, is an intricate play written on the life of a soldier in the sixteenth century, set in the backdrop of a war between Venice and Turkey. This century, referred to as Renaissance (the era of re-birth), marks the emancipation of women. Plays in the Renaissance featured women who would break the rules and stand up for themselves, their honor. This was the era where plays portrayed women trying to come to power, overthrowing the concept of power being only with stereotypical

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    proposed a program of compensated emancipation, where owner are rewarded… in Delaware. Even though it was successful in Delaware, compensated emancipation was not a feasible plan for other Southern states such as Missouri and Kentucky. “In 1863 state legislation towards compensated emancipation in Maryland failed to pass, as did an attempt to include it in a newly written Missouri constitution” (Wikipedia) Both Lincoln and R Palmer taught that compensated emancipation is the method off ending slavery

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    Ask anyone and they will probably say that the Emancipation Proclamation freed the slaves. Such a document would be life-changing for Americans, but that document was not the Emancipation Proclamation. So what was the Emancipation Proclamation? Circulated after Northern victory at Antietam, notwithstanding it was proposed long before, President Lincoln addressed the South to free the slaves in the land he had no dominion over and change the reasoning for the Civil War which had been long brewing

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    Right? The Emancipation Proclamation was a pivotal document in the American Civil War, but not for the reason a lot of Americans think. Crafted by 16th president, Abraham Lincoln and issued on January 1, 1863, The Emancipation Proclamation did not free the slaves ("The Emancipation Proclamation"). Rather it did not free any slaves in the Union. The Emancipation Proclamation stated all slaves in the rebellious states "shall be then, thenceforward, and forever free" ("The Emancipation Proclamation")

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    did not join the Union, the South would of won. The Announcement of the Emancipation Proclamation was a good war strategy due to the amount of soldiers they gained. It enabled the African Americans to join the Union army and gave them tremendous amounts of help in numbers. The Emancipation Proclamation was a document that set slaves free except in the border states of Kentucky, Maryland, Missouri, and Delaware. The Emancipation Proclamation came into play after the Union’s victory at the Battle of

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    The Emancipation Proclamation was written by Abraham Lincoln, it was issued on Jan. 1, 1863. The document was not universally supported throughout America at the time it was issued. The reason for it not being supported through America is because the civil war was being fought at this time in America. The document allowed African Americans to join the North’s Union Army it states “The executive government of the United States, including the military and naval authorities thereof, will recognize and

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    The final draft of the Emancipation Proclamation would be detailed with dilatant content attacking the practice of slavery but nonetheless brought great feelings of jubilation to slaves in designated areas as they received the news that freedom had finally found it’s way to them. Booker T Washington, then a you boy implemented into slavery, reflected on the moment of receiving the news of being freed, “It was a momentous and eventful day to all upon our plantation. We had been expecting it. Freedom

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    The Emancipation Proclamation proclaimed the freedom of slaves. It was issued by Abraham Lincoln in 1863 but was it issued for the right reasons? The 1860’s were a difficult time for the United States of America. The Civil War divided the country into the South and the North. Slavery was a big issue that caused the Civil War. The Emancipation Proclamation was not issued for the right reasons. It was used a blinder for slaves. Abraham Lincoln was proslavery. The freed slave myth of the Emancipation

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    goals” and “competing interests.” One was to deal with the negative impacts, which brought about a sense of healing. The second was regarding the emancipation of slaves. One vision was about healing, while the other was about justice, and Blight notes this in the prologue and states, “Americans faced an overwhelming task after the Civil War and emancipation: how to understand the tangled relationship between two profound ideas–healing and justice” (Blight, Prologue, page 3). In addition, in part two

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    The Emancipation Proclamation was a presidential proclamation and executive order issued by the President Abraham Lincoln on January 1, 1863 when the country entered the third year of Civil War. The Emancipation Proclamation was a big game changer for the Civil War. It changed the federal legal status of more than 3 million enslaved people in the designated areas of the South from slave to free. The Emancipation Proclamation changed the main goal of the Civil War. This executive order, issued as

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