CSPAN Preliminary Emancipation Proclamation Exhibit August 16, 2014
The United States and each of the states and the people in which that relation is or may be suspected or disturbed. If they did not return to the then, he would in 1863 free enslaved people, enslaved in the states in rebellion. Wanted toy, lincoln figure out a way to have a strong legal argument to support emancipation. And by focusing the emancipation proclamation on the states in rebellion, he was able to make it a matter of his extraordinary powers in war as president. He made an important political decision, because there were slaves in the states that were controlled by the union, and ter...