Rather, it declared free only those slaves living in states not under Union control. William Seward, Lincoln's secretary of state, commented, "We show our symapthy with slavery by emancipating ...

Though "contraband" slaves had been declared free, Lincoln continued to insist that this was a war to save the Union, not to free slaves. But by 1862, Lincoln was considering emancipation as a ...

He was joined there by Anna Murray, a free black woman from ... most of whom were skeptical of Lincoln's qualified and relatively mild opposition to slavery. Douglass argued that although Lincoln ...

American schoolchildren are taught that the slaves in confederate states were freed when Abraham Lincoln issued the ... the reality of actually freeing those slaves was far more complicated.

Fremont issued an emancipation proclamation in St. Louis, freeing slaves in Missouri, a bold move that predated President ...

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He had, he said, “dwelt much and long on the subject” of slavery. Lincoln then read aloud a 325-word first draft of the Emancipation Proclamation, intended to free slaves in Confederate areas ...

The following is an edited, excerpted version of Maureen McKinney’s interview with her longtime friend Stacy Lynn, about the ...

Similarly offered as evidence of Lincoln's opportunism is his oft quoted remark "If I could save the Union without freeing any slave I would do it, and if I could save it by freeing all the slaves I ...

The law not only freed those held in bondage, but acknowledged the economic system built on slavery by compensating slaveowners, a decision Lincoln recognized ... just about freeing the enslaved ...

I believe this government cannot endure permanently half slave and half free.” 37 —Abraham Lincoln The Civil War was about slavery, although both sides sometimes pretended that it was not.