Tag: Preliminary Emancipation Proclamation
Emancipation Proclamation: “It is my Desire to be Free”
Today’s blog post comes from National Archives social media intern Anna Fitzpatrick. Only 100 days after promising in the Preliminary Emancipation Proclamation that slaves in the Confederacy would soon be freed, Lincoln fulfilled that promise by signing the Emancipation Proclamation on January 1, 1863. This proclamation changed the character of the war, adding moral force [...]
Posted by Hilary on December 29, 2012, under - Civil War, - Presidents, Letters in the National Archives, Pennsylvania Avenue.
Tags: Annie Davis, Confederacy, Emancipation Proclamation, guest post, lincoln, Maryland, Preliminary Emancipation Proclamation, slavery, Union
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The Preliminary Emancipation Proclamation
Today’s blog post comes from National Archives social media intern Anna Fitzpatrick. Throughout the Civil War, when President Lincoln needed to concentrate—when he faced a task that required his focused and undivided attention—he would leave the White House, cross the street to the War Department, and take over the desk of Thomas T. Eckert, chief [...]
Posted by Hilary on December 28, 2012, under - Civil War, Uncategorized.
Tags: civil war, Emancipation Proclamation, guest post, lincoln, Preliminary Emancipation Proclamation, slavery, telegraph
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Preliminary Emancipation Proclamation on display in New York City
The fiery trial through which we pass, will light us down, in honor or dishonor, to the latest generation. . . . In giving freedom to the slave, we assure freedom to the free—honorable alike in what we give, and what we preserve. We shall nobly save, or meanly lose, the last best, hope of [...]
Posted by Hilary on September 19, 2012, under - Civil War.
Tags: Archivist, civil war, Emancipation Proclamation, Preliminary Emancipation Proclamation, slavery
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