not to free slaves. But by 1862, Lincoln was considering emancipation as a necessary step toward winning the war. The South was using enslaved people to aid the war effort. Black men and women ...

It read in part, "The people of Texas are informed that, in accordance with a proclamation from the Executive of the United States, all slaves are free." But the emancipation that took place in ...

No Confederate states took the offer, and on January 1 Lincoln presented the Emancipation Proclamation. The proclamation declared, "all persons held as slaves within any States, or designated part ...

Section 1. Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject ...

Puerto Rico commemorates Emancipation Day, a historical milestone that marks the abolition of slavery on the island.

The effort may succeed, for an Emancipation party is an exotic in a modern Slave State; and the party in Missouri is not only young, but has intestine strifes that unfortunately impair its energies.

The President, in his important special message on gradual emancipation in the Border Slave States, has not pointed out the mode or means of pecuniary aid in the good work. But there is no ...

We were all taught in school that the Statue of Liberty was a gift from France to the U.S. to celebrate American independence ...

Your Artstor image groups were copied to Workspace. The Artstor website will be retired on Aug 1st. Tennessee Historical Magazine Vol. 4, No. 1, MARCH, 1918 THE VOLUNTARY EMANCIPATION OF SLAVES IN ...

I was the first Black woman to publish my experiences and it helped push towards the Emancipation Act of 1833, which abolished slavery in most parts of the British Empire. But although people were ...

In the 1940s, a handful of former slaves were interviewed on a tape ... A year before President Abraham Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation, a Washington, D.C. institution took root on humble ...