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Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation In 1863

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Lincoln’s emancipation proclamation in 1863 declared “all persons held as slaves…shall be free,” which granted Black Americans a necessity they had not had before, freedom. This significantly improved Black American’s lives as it meant they were able to marry, own property and move freely between states. This was a definite improvement as Black Americans had not had this opportunity before. Without the President Lincoln having issued the proclamation, this would not have been put into effect.
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Allen Guelzo and Vincent Harding approached Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation and the eventual abolition of slavery from two very different viewpoints. The major disagreement between them is whether the slaves freed themselves, or Abraham Lincoln and his Emancipation Proclamation freed them. Harding argued the former view, Guelzo took the later. When these essays are compared side by side Guelzo’s is stronger because, unlike Harding, he was able to keep his own views of American race relations out of the essay and presented an argument that was based on more than emotion. Allen Guelzo

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The most controversial document in Abraham Lincoln’s presidency was the Emancipation Proclamation. It was met with both hostility and jubilation by the North. The proclamation declares that everybody that was held as slaves within the rebellious states,the southern  states in rebellion, were going to be free. Most people do not know that it was written twice.       

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On September 2nd, 1862, Abraham Lincoln famously signed the Emancipation Proclamation. After that, there’s been much debate on whether Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation truly played a role in freeing the slaves with many arguments opposing or favoring this issue. In Vincent Harding’s essay, The Blood-red Ironies of God, Harding argues in his thesis that Lincoln did not help to emancipate the slaves but that rather the slaves “self-emancipated” themselves through the war. On the opposition, Allen C Guelzo ’s essay, Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation: The End of Slavery in America, argues in favor of the Emancipation Proclamation and Guelzo acknowledges Lincoln for the abolishment of slavery through the Emancipation Proclamation.

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The Emancipation Proclamation further states, "That on the first day of January, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty-three, 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 wasn't just a document; it was a symbol of freedom and change to come. Because of the Emancipation Proclamation, many African Americans were able to have better lives. They were glad when freedom was declared. They said they were hard on em.

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