Abolitionist Argumentative Analysis

"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 to their jurisdiction (Greene, McAward 2014). This is the statement from the thirteenth amendment, which formally abolished slavery in the United States. The thirteenth amendment was passed by Congress on January 31, 1865, but it was not ratified until December. Prior to the Civil War, in attempt to stop the war, Congress tried to pass a different draft of the thirteenth amendment, which had a different motive. In the first draft of the thirteenth amendment it allowed slave states to keep their slaves. Though the Civil war started before it could sent to the

“Those manifestos were so powerful that their ideals, influenced a generation of abolitionist (Tsesis, 101).” William Ellery Channing said the abolitionist argument was based on the assertion of the destructible right of every human being, as well as, each person was born to be free and the their individual rights could never be trumped (Tsesis, 101). Abolitionist believed slavery stripped man their rights to counsel, and being able to obtain happiness. So, because of this belief Republicans created the Thirteenth amendment by the natural right principles and used the amendment process, under Article V, to change the law. The Thirteenth amendment enforced the right for the protection of civil liberties that until the amendment had been valued but not

It was proposed by Lincoln to his cabinet in the summer of 1862 as a measure to cripple the Confederacy. Lincoln surmised that if the slaves were set free in the Southern states, then the Confederacy could no longer use them as laborers to support the army in the field. which will hinder the effectiveness of the Confederate war effort. As a shrewd politician, however, Lincoln needed to prove that the Union government could enforce the Proclamation and protect the freed slaves. On September 22, 1862, following the Union “victory” at the Battle of Antietam, the Emancipation Proclamation was issued, this preliminary proclamation would go into effect in three months after January 1, 1863. Signed by President Lincoln on January 1, 1863, it proclaimed that “all persons held as slaves within any state, or designated part of a State, the people whereof shall then be in rebellion against the United States, shall be then, thenceforward, and forever free.” The Emancipation Proclamation had an instantaneous and overwhelming effect on the court of the war. In addition to saving the Union, freeing the slaves now because an official war aim, garnering passionate reactions from both the North and the South. The Emancipation Proclamation also allowed for African-Americans to join the Union's armed forces, and by the end of the war nearly 200, 000 would honorably serve. Proclaimed