Abraham Lincoln: The Proclamation: Part A

Part A of the fifth in a series of nine documentary files, produced by the Lincoln Institute discussing the issues surrounding the drafting of the Emancipation Proclamation.

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News & Politics

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• Abraham
• Lincoln
• Emancipation
• Proclamation
• Civil
• War
• Slavery

[ElHombreConDosOjos]

Sweet freedom has its bloody shirt on backwards.

[bargeanimal]

It would be useful if the episodes were numbered....

[kianz247]

I am writing a research paper on Abraham Lincoln's views of slavery leading to his writing of Emancipation Proclamation. Please write facts, and only facts about how he viewed slavery. (leave your answer on my channel's comments or message me)

[todddoom]

There was no preliminary proclamation. There is 1 Emancipation Proclamation. Efforts to create a preliminary proclamation come people who want claim the war was fought to free slaves, not to preserve the Union.

[B7NB]

comments shuld be short,summary & understandable,logical as well.

[neothomist1275]

"The workingmen of Europe feel sure that, as the American War of Independence initiated a new era of ascendancy for the middle class, so the American Antislavery War will do for the working classes. They consider it an earnest of the epoch to come that it fell to the lot of Abraham Lincoln, the single-minded son of the working class, to lead his country through the matchless struggle for the rescue of an enchained race and the reconstruction of a social world."

--Karl Marx's letter to Lincoln