24 September 2012

Emancipation and the Civil War.

Copyright © 2012 Bob R Bogle



Emancipation and the Civil War.  President Abraham Lincoln issued the preliminary Emancipation Proclamation 150 years ago on September 22nd, 1862. It ordered the emancipation of all slaves in any Confederate state that did not return to the Union by January 1st, 1863. No Confederate states returned, and Lincoln signed and issued the Emancipation Proclamation on January 1, 1863. This week, history professors and bloggers discuss the debates and controversies over emancipation-its timing, its initial results, and its post-war effects into the 20th century. The panel is from the 2012 Civil War Institute Conference at Gettysburg College.

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