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Title: The Civil War in color: A world in black and white brought to life as US celebrates 150th anniversary of the abolition of slavery
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URL Source: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art ... versary-abolition-slavery.html
Published: Feb 2, 2015
Author: Daily Mail
Post Date: 2015-02-02 23:32:06 by A K A Stone
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Views: 5733
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Some 150 years since Abraham Lincoln outlawed slavery in the U.S., a collection of rare Civil War-era photographs have been brought to life through painstaking colorization. February 1 marks National Freedom Day, honoring the signing by President Lincoln of a resolution which became the 13th Amendment to the Constitution and abolished slavery. The photographs, seen here, depict the battle-weary men who fought in the bloody conflict between 1861 and 1865, either for the survival of the Union or a strike out into independence for the Confederates. Scroll down for video
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#8. To: A K A Stone (#0)
President Abraham Lincoln did not outlaw slavery in the U.S. He proclaimed the slaves to be free in those parts of the Confederate States not under Union control. Exempt were the parts under Union control and all of Tennessee. Slavery in the Union states, such as Delaware, was unaffected. Proclaimed as a war measure against the other belligerent party, when the war ended the Emancipation Proclamation had no further legal effect. The 13th Amendment freed the slaves in the U.S. under President Andrew Johnson. Not until the 13th Amendment did slavery end in the Union states, i.e., the United States.
Facts often forgotten or glossed over in general and in schools in particular.
After my good Yankee edumakation, I escaped high school thinking Lincoln was the victim of a lone nut assassin, John Wilkes Booth did it, end of story. The congressional debate about the 13th Amendment was recorded verbatim and is published in the Congressional Globe, a forerunner of the Federal Record. What was said, by who, and when, is a matter of record. In the recent Spielberg movie, Lincoln, the congressional debate or speeches were fictional, not that the casual viewer would have known. For the complete Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln, see: http://quod.lib.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?page=browse&c=lincoln For what Lincoln sounded like before Washington speech writers, see below from Volume 3. The below quotes are from 1858-1859, a year or two before Lincoln was elected President. - - - Lincoln at Carlinville, Illinois, August 31, 1858 http://quod.lib.umich.edu/l/lincoln/lincoln3/1:7.1?rgn=div2;view=fulltext Starts with a bang, page 77. The N-word is not elided in the original. - - - Lincoln speech at Elwood, Kansas, December 1, 1859 http://quod.lib.umich.edu/l/lincoln/lincoln3/1:164.1?rgn=div2;view=fulltext At page 495, emphasis in original. - - - Lincoln speech at Edwardsville, Ilinois, September 11, 1858 http://quod.lib.umich.edu/l/lincoln/lincoln3/1:13.1?rgn=div2;view=fulltext At the bottom of page 94 and continuing on page 95, Lincoln dropped four N-bombs in a single paragraph.
#17. To: nolu chan (#16)
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BFD, that was the lingo of the day (and of today within the black culture). It doesn't negate all of the good things Lincoln did - unless of course you are a southerner or other Lincoln detractor. IMO Lincoln did what was necessary to keep the Union together and that was a good thing to have done (though it may all soon come apart again). Were rules broken, yep, you bet your ass they were. To invoke the attitude of the current Emperor of the Union, sue him. While you at at it throw in FDR as well.
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#10. To: nolu chan, A K A Stone (#8)
President Abraham Lincoln did not outlaw slavery in the U.S. He proclaimed the slaves to be free in those parts of the Confederate States not under Union control. Exempt were the parts under Union control and all of Tennessee. Slavery in the Union states, such as Delaware, was unaffected. Proclaimed as a war measure against the other belligerent party, when the war ended the Emancipation Proclamation had no further legal effect
#16. To: SOSO, A K A Stone (#10)
Facts often forgotten or glossed over in general and in schools in particular.
He [Lincoln] said the question is often asked, why this fuss about n*****s?
People often ask, "why make such a fuss about a few n*****s?''
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#19. To: nolu chan (#16)
At the bottom of page 94 and continuing on page 95, Lincoln dropped four N-bombs in a single paragraph.
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