Emancipation Proclamation
the proclamation issued by President Lincoln on September 22, 1862, that freed the people held as slaves in those territories still in rebellion against the Union from January 1, 1863, forward.
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How to use Emancipation Proclamation in a sentence
The Emancipation Proclamation, as Nancy Pelosi reminds us, was an executive action.
Martin Luther King asked President John Kennedy to issue a new Emancipation Proclamation on the centenary of the first.
But the Emancipation Proclamation set his heart beating with thoughts of immortality.
A Mighty Act: The 150th Anniversary of the Emancipation Proclamation | Harold Holzer | January 1, 2013 | THE DAILY BEASTBut historians are already preemptively dousing our enthusiasm for the Emancipation Proclamation.
Did the Civil War Achieve Equality? Stephen Kantrowitz’s ‘More Than Freedom’ | Eric Herschthal | August 15, 2012 | THE DAILY BEASTAnd he learned that President Lincoln had freed the slaves in the Emancipation Proclamation.
A great many pious stories have been circulated in regard to the Emancipation Proclamation.
Abraham Lincoln: Was He A Christian? | John B. RemsburgMr. Lincoln's final Emancipation Proclamation excited them to a still higher frenzy.
A Short Life of Abraham Lincoln | John G. NicolayA significant event of the war was the issuance by President Lincoln of his celebrated Emancipation Proclamation.
The Emancipation Proclamation, though scoffed at as a cry of impotence, none the less increased the general sense of crisis.
The Day of the Confederacy | Nathaniel W. StephensonHe lost no time in issuing another Emancipation Proclamation.
The Life of Isaac Ingalls Stevens, Volume II (of 2) | Hazard Stevens
Cultural definitions for Emancipation Proclamation
A proclamation made by President Abraham Lincoln in 1863 that all slaves under the Confederacy were from then on “forever free.”
Notes for Emancipation Proclamation
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