... would not even scratch the surface. There are so many different factors that must be looked at. I particularly want to draw readers" attention to an excellent source for this study, Abraham Lincoln, Constitutionalism, and Equal Rights in the Civil War Era. It was this book in particular that helped me to realize that scope of my research must be wider. The attitudes ... day of September, in the year of our Lord, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-two, and of the Independence of the United States, the eighty-seventh. By the President: Abraham Lincoln WILLIAM H. SEWARD, Secretary of Sta...

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... (Douglass Speeches 289). During the American Civil War (1861-1865), Douglass helped recruit African Americans for the Union Army. He discussed the problems of slavery with President Abraham Lincoln several times. On September 22, 1862 Lincoln issued a preliminary order to free the slaves. It declared that all slave states in rebellion against the Union on January 1, 1863 would forever be free. It did ... not include slave states loyal to the Union. On January 1, 1863, Lincoln issued the final order as the Emancipation Proclamation. The Emancipation Proclamation, though legally binding, ...

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... War as the continuation, and hopefully the completion of the American Revolution. They hoped that the Civil War would give them access to the freedom promised during revolutionary times. Abraham Lincoln initially refused to enlist blacks in the federal army. In an effort to hold the loyalty of the Border States, which were also slaveholding states ... been tried, not too successfully, in Louisiana, Arkansas, Tennessee, and Virginia. Congress, however, refused to seat the Senators and Representatives elected from those states, and by the time of Lincoln's assassination the President and ...

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... Underground Railroad, which helped slaves fleeing to the free states or to Canada. After the Civil War began in 1861, abolitionists rallied to the Union cause. They rejoiced when President Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation on Jan. 1, 1863, declaring the slaves free in many parts of the South. In 1865, the 13th Amendment to the United States Constitution abolished slavery in ... known as popular sovereignty. This idea seemed like a noble idea, but it turned out that it actually caused problems During the Civil War, they realized they made an impact when Lincoln issued ...

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