Abraham Lincoln's letter to Mrs. Bixby coveys not only a sense of sympathy and compassion towards the anguished mother, but also a sense of gratitude and thankfulness for letting her sacrifice her sons for a greater cause. The deaths of a mother's sons prompt the president to write a personal and pa...
Although the Proclamation did not free all slaves in the nation "indeed, no slaves outside of the Confederacy were affected by the Proclamation "it was an important symbolic gesture that identified the Union with freedom and the death of slavery. ...
Although this did not free all slaves in the nation, in the loyal slave states of Missouri, Maryland, and Kentucky, slaves continued to be slaves until the passage of the Thirteenth Amendment, it was an important symbolic gesture that identified the Union with freedom and the death of slavery. ...
Frederick Douglass was the most important black American leader of the 19th century. He was born Frederick Augustus Washington Bailey near Maryland's Eastern Shore in 1808, the son of a slave woman, and in all likelihood, her white master. When Douglass was about twelve years old, his master's wife started teaching him the alphabet from then he continued, secretly, to teach himself how to read and write. Upon his escape from slavery at age 20, he adopted the surname of Frederick Douglass and quickly became involved in the campaign against slavery known as the abolitionist ...
