On this day in 1862, President Abraham Lincoln issues a preliminary Emancipation Proclamation, which sets a date for the freedom of more than 3 million black slaves in the United States and recasts the Civil War as a fight against slavery.
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When the Civil War broke out in 1861, shortly after Lincoln’s inauguration as America’s 16th president, he maintained that the war was about restoring the Union and not about slavery. He avoided issuing an anti-slavery proclamation immediately, despite the urgings of abolitionists and radical Republicans, as well as his personal belief that slavery was morally repugnant. Instead, Lincoln chose to move cautiously until he could gain wide support from the public for such a measure.
In July 1862, Lincoln informed his cabinet that he would issue an emancipation proclamation but that it would exempt the so-called border states, which had slaveholders but remained loyal to the Union. His cabinet persuaded him not to make the announcement until after a Union victory. Lincoln’s opportunity came following the Union win at the Battle of Antietam in September 1862. On September 22, the president announced that slaves in areas still in rebellion within 100 days would be free.
On January 1, 1863, Lincoln issued the final Emancipation Proclamation, which declared “that all persons held as slaves” within the rebel states “are, and henceforward shall be free.” The proclamation also called for the recruitment and establishment of black military units among the Union forces. An estimated 180,000 African Americans went on to serve in the army, while another 18,000 served in the navy.
After the Emancipation Proclamation, backing the Confederacy was seen as favoring slavery. It became impossible for anti-slavery nations such as Great Britain and France, who had been friendly to the Confederacy, to get involved on behalf of the South. The proclamation also unified and strengthened Lincoln’s party, the Republicans, helping them stay in power for the next two decades.
The proclamation was a presidential order and not a law passed by Congress, so Lincoln then pushed for an antislavery amendment to the U.S. Constitution to ensure its permanence. With the passage of the 13th Amendment in 1865, slavery was eliminated throughout America (although blacks would face another century of struggle before they truly began to gain equal rights).
Lincoln’s handwritten draft of the final Emancipation Proclamation was destroyed in the Chicago Fire of 1871. Today, the original official version of the document is housed in the National Archives in Washington, D.C.
Since we’re going to have a discussion about the War of Northern Aggression, could we work the Jews into it somehow – just for a little extra flavor?
Lincoln was a Jew.
His true ancestral name was Lincolnstein, they changed it for deceptive political reasons as the Jews always do.
Abraham Lincolnstein, think about it.
Jews weren’t attracted to America until there was something worth stealing.
Like our economy and our future via central banking.
More like Frankenstein.
The Rothschild banks funded BOTH SIDES OF THE WAR (as they always do).
On this day in history we should have shipped them all back.
NOT FREED IN THE NORTH, where Lincoln actually had AUTHORITY, but in the southern states – typical hollow political move designed to buy votes and support with absolutely NO REAL MEANING.
Politicians from both worthless major parties have been following this example ever since.
Sure, it was a propaganda move and a strike at economic warfare against the South.
Blacks and libs think Lincoln was some sort of abolitionist saint, but I’ve read some of the man’s jokes (he was terrible at telling jokes) and they weren’t about white people. I assume they also don’t know about Abe’s penchant for sleeping with men, either.
In the Lincoln-Douglas debates of 1856, Lincoln repeatedly said that negroes would never be the equal of white men, or be suitable for American society, so they should be shipped back to Africa. Northerners did not want blacks coming north, so Lincoln made sure not to make the north attractive by freeing slaves there….
Maybe on April 14th they’ll have “On this date in 1865 Lincoln got what he deserved ” .
Sic Semper Tyrannis
What horse crap for comments. Well , mostly
Embarrassing.
Look into General Fremont.