The Emancipation Proclamation was a significant turning point in history because it freed millions of slaves in rebelling states, helped end the Civil War, and ultimately reunited the Union. This was necessary because the Union and Confederacy were polar opposites, ready to break apart. Abraham Lincoln, the writer of the Emancipation Proclamation, was a complex man with contrasting ideas. At first, he didn’t want to write the document, but later realized it was important to the restoration of the Union. However, African Americans didn't get justice until long after the document was released.
"I have observed this in my experience of slavery, - that whenever my condition was improved, instead of its increasing my contentment, it only increased my desire to be free, and set me to thinking of plans to gain my freedom. I have found that, to make a contented slave, it is necessary to make a thoughtless one. It is necessary to darken his moral and mental vision, and, as far as possible, to annihilate the power of reason. He must be able to detect no inconsistencies in slavery; he must be made to feel that slavery is right; and he can be brought to that only when he ceased to be a man.”
― Frederick Douglass, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass |
Slave after beating
“Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves.”
-Abraham Lincoln
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Abraham Lincoln's Effect on Slavery: The Emancipation Proclamation
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Abraham Lincoln's Effect on Slavery: The Emancipation Proclamation
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