Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude ... The Emancipation Proclamation, issued by President Abraham Lincoln on January 1, 1863, signaled the transformation of an expedient military strategy ...

Some Americans had opposed slavery since colonial times ... as an unofficial liaison between African Americans and Abraham Lincoln, encouraging Lincoln to allow African Americans to fight for ...

The 1864 letter in which Abraham Lincoln replies to the abolitionist ... the United States as of January 1, 1863, full abolition of slavery was not accomplished until adoption of the 13th ...

Abraham Lincoln grew up on the American frontier ... the men argued over the issue that was dividing the nation — slavery. Douglas opposed abolition. He also believed that people in new U.S ...

In New Salem, Lincoln encountered the religious and the atheist, the learned and the illiterate. It's where he ran a store ...

This, no doubt, is true of any really great statesman, but it was remarkably so of Abraham Lincoln ... abolition of the slave trade in the District of Columbia, that not only the slave trade but ...

37 —Abraham Lincoln The Civil War was about slavery ... 200,000 black men fought for the Union and the eventual abolition of slavery across the nation. They were right that a Union victory ...

IDAHO FALLS – Abraham Lincoln said goodbye to ... At age 19, Leroy said Lincoln also saw the “abhorrence of slavery.” On a river boat trip to Mississippi and Louisiana, he saw black men ...

As a young man in Illinois, Abraham Lincoln was a religious skeptic ... praising God for “every successive step” leading toward slavery’s abolition. But there was still much to be done ...