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How Does The Emancipation Proclamation Tie In To Abraham Lincoln   

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How Does The Emancipation Proclamation Tie In To Abraham Lincoln   

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The life of a runaway slave that used her freedom to help other slaves escape. 

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The life of a runaway slave that used her freedom to help other slaves escape. 

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The Breathtaking Story Of Harriet Tubman

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The Breathtaking Story Of Harriet Tubman

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The Breathtaking Story of Harriet Tubman

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"I grew up like a neglected weed - ignorant of liberty, having no experience of it".-Harriet Tubman
Harriet Tubman was Born into slavery in 1822 she escaped in 1849, and helped many other slaves escape to safety in free states. She served in the Union Armyas a cook, nurse, scout and spy. In later life she was active in the woman suffrage movement. She died in 1913, at 90.

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A.A. Lamb's painting "The Emancipation Proclamation" depicts President Lincoln holding the proclamation while a female figure symbolizing emancipation rides past, to the cheers of soldiers andfreed slaves.

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What did Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation state?

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What did Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation state?

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Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation stated that slavery would officially end. It also brought the Thirteenth Amendment which brought significance to the war, for now people were fighting to free slaves. Non-slave countries also received this amendment, especially England, which ended the threat of English support for the Confederacy. "on the first day of January, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty-three, all persons held as slaves within any State or designated part of a State, the people whereof shall then be in rebellion against the United States, shall be then, thenceforward, and forever free;" this states that all people held as slaves shall be free.

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by Abraham Lincoln making slaves free it prevented the recognition of the Confederacy by England.

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"Abolition and the Underground Railroad" Three Point Summary- Database 

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"Abolition and the Underground Railroad" Three Point Summary- Database 

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1. In an effort to help people free slavery underground railroads were developed in places where people were free like Canada, Kentucky and Virginia. Fugitive slaves laws were put in place and those who got caught trying to escape slavery were penalized. Slavery became popularized in America in the 1600s 600,000 Africans had been brought to the American colonies to work on tobacco and cotton farms in the South. Issues with slavery became more common over the years. Some people only wanted to limit the practice of slavery. Others wanted it ended gradually. "Still others demanded a complete and immediate abolition of slavery."

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Quote From The Emancipation Proclamation 

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Quote From The Emancipation Proclamation 

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"The Emancipation Proclamation, issued by Abraham Lincoln, freed slaves in the South, allowing them to fight on the side of the Union during the U.S. Civil War. Slavery was abolished nationwide with the ratification of the Thirteenth Amendment on December 6, 1865."

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"Abolition and the Underground Railroad." Gale U.S. History Online Collection, Gale, 2023. Gale In Context: U.S. History, link.gale.com/apps/doc/KWBCND710440385/UHIC?u=azstatelibdev&sid=bookmark-UHIC&xid=75ecc7c7. Accessed 18 Jan. 2024.

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"Abolition and the Underground Railroad." Gale U.S. History Online Collection, Gale, 2023. Gale In Context: U.S. History, link.gale.com/apps/doc/KWBCND710440385/UHIC?u=azstatelibdev&sid=bookmark-UHIC&xid=75ecc7c7. Accessed 18 Jan. 2024.

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"Sojourner Truth was born as Isabella Baumfree in 1797 in Ulster Country, New York. The daughter of slave parents owned by James and Elizabeth Baumfree, Truth spent her childhood as a slave. As she grew older, she witnessed many of slavery's cruelties firsthand. For example, several of her brothers and sisters were sold and taken away from their family during her childhood." citation

Hillstrom, Kevin, and Laurie Collier Hillstrom. "Sojourner Truth." American Civil War Reference Library, edited by Lawrence W. Baker, vol. 2: Biographies, UXL, 2000, pp. 467-471. Gale In Context: U.S. History, link.gale.com/apps/doc/CX3410500071/UHIC?u=azstatelibdev&sid=bookmark-UHIC&xid=d18bc015. Accessed 18 Jan. 2024.

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Isabella Van Wagener, commonly known as Sojourner Truth was born into slavery in 1797. She was freed in 1827 by the New York Gradual Abolition Act and worked as a domestic aka a servant in New York City through her job she met a Christian evangelist and began preaching. She then changed her leal name to Sojourner Truth and began traveling and preaching to large crowds.

Sometime around 1843 Truth began speaking out in favor of abolition. In the early 1850s, she also began advocating for women’s rights. In 1851 she gave a speech titled “Ain’t I a Woman?” she used her outlet and somewhat platform from preaching to talk equality and equal rights.

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