But Lincoln omitted the so-called "border slave states" of Missouri, Kentucky, Maryland, and Delaware from the
Emancipation Proclamation because they were not in rebellion against the federal government and therefore its citizens deserved the full protection of their constitutional rights.
What could have prevented President Lincoln from issuing an
Emancipation Proclamation at the onset of the war in 1861, instead of in September of 1862?
Lincoln's
Emancipation Proclamation sparked a debate over whether the executive or the legislative branch had ultimate jurisdiction.
The
Emancipation Proclamation: President Lincoln formally signed and issued this proclamation on January 1, 1863.
Begun in 1802, Second African Baptist Church (123 Houston St.; 912-233-6163) is where General Sherman read the
Emancipation Proclamation to Savannah's citizens.
The text contains a sealed package of 10 facsimile documents in a built-in cover envelope, including logs of real slave ships, minutes of the first meeting of the Committee for Abolition of the Slave Trade, a letter from a slave to his master asking to purchase his freedom, and Lincoln's 1862
Emancipation Proclamation. After an overview, chapters cover the European slave trade with Africa, sugar and slavery, the Middle Passage, destinations and slave life, slave resistance, abolition, and legacies.
Elaine Landau's THE
EMANCIPATION PROCLAMATION: WOULD YOU DO WHAT LINCOLN DID?
Gore's
Emancipation Proclamation for pregnant chads mocks legal reasoning and represents an affront to the rule of law.