emancipation

Examples of emancipation in the following topics:

• The 1861 Emancipation of the Serfs

• Emancipation

  • In 1863, President Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation, an executive order that freed the slaves in the Confederate states.
  • The Emancipation Proclamation was an executive order issued by U.S.
  • Due in large part to this fierce competition for labor opportunities, the poor and working-class Irish Catholics generally opposed emancipation.
  • President Lincoln and other Republicans were concerned that the Emancipation Proclamation would be seen as a temporary war measure because it was solely based upon Lincoln's war powers.
  • Areas covered by the Emancipation Proclamation are shown in red.

• The Aftermath of the War

  • Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation enabled blacks to join the Union Army, giving the Union an advantage, and helped end the Civil War.
  • Although Lincoln's approach to emancipation was slow, the Emancipation Proclamation was an effective use of the President's war powers.
  • The Emancipation Proclamation enabled African-Americans, both free blacks and escaped slaves, to join the Union Army.
  • Emancipated slaves mostly handled garrison duties, and fought numerous battles in 1864–65.
  • They were nearly all freed by the Emancipation Proclamation.

• Union Politics

  • Republicans were split between those who sought peace within the Confederacy and those who wanted emancipation for slaves.
  • As the war progressed, emancipation remained a risky political act that had little public support.
  • Congress passed several laws between 1861 and 1863 that aided the growing movement toward emancipation.
  • In order to increase public support for emancipation, Lincoln strategically chose to associate the Emancipation Proclamation with the Union victory at the Battle of Antietam in September 1862.
  • Stevens was a leader among the Radical Republicans, supporters of emancipation.

• The 13th Amendment

  • The Thirteenth Amendment completed the abolition of slavery in the United States, which had begun with President Abraham Lincoln issuing the Emancipation Proclamation in 1863.

• The First Emancipation

  • Lord Dunmore's Proclamation was the first mass emancipation of enslaved people in United States history.
  • Dunmore's Proclamation was the first mass emancipation of enslaved people in United States history.

• The Civil War Amendments

  • The Civil War Amendments protected equality for emancipated slaves by banning slavery, defining citizenship, and ensuring voting rights.
  • Known collectively as the Civil War Amendments, they were designed to ensure the equality for recently emancipated slaves.
  • While the Emancipation Proclamation (1863) officially ended slavery within the U.S., many citizens were concerned that the rights granted by war-time legislation would be overturned.

• African Americans in the Military

  • African-American soldiers comprised 10 percent of the Union Army, with recruitment beginning following the Emancipation Proclamation in 1863.
  • Union Army setbacks in battles over the summer of 1862 led Lincoln to emancipate all slaves in states at war with the Union.
  • In September 1862, Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation, announcing that all slaves in rebellious states would be free as of January 1, 1863.
  • The attitude within the Confederacy toward Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation was very negative, with many calling for the trial of any Union soldiers captured as slave insurrectionists, an offense punishable by death.

• The Contraband Camps

  • Defying a Virginia law against educating slaves, Peake and other teachers held classes outdoors under a large oak tree, which later was named the "Emancipation Oak"; in 1863, President Abraham Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation was read to the contraband slaves and free blacks there.
  • For most of the contraband slaves, full emancipation did not take place until the Thirteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution abolished slavery in late 1865.
  • That uncertainty continued until late 1865, when the Thirteenth Amendment was adopted and contraband slaves became eligible for full emancipation.

• The Politics of Slavery

  • Because slavery represented the basis of the southern social and economic system, even those who did not own slaves the South often violently opposed any suggestions for ending the practice, whether through abolition or gradual emancipation.
  • In the 1830s, he demanded, "immediate emancipation, gradually achieved."
  • In other words, he demanded that slave owners repent of the sin of slave holding immediately and take steps to emancipate their slaves.