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The Emancipation Proclamation, issued by President Lincoln, declared freedom for all slaves in the Confederate States.
held views about race that by modern standards include explicitly racist statements and support for policies like voluntary colonization, yet he also opposed , issued the Emancipation Proclamation, an...
wartime measures—most visibly the and the party’s 1864 platform—created the political momentum and constitutional rationale that drove to draft and pass the as a permanent national abolition of slaver...
The Insurrection Act has been invoked roughly 30 times over more than two centuries, by somewhere between 15 and 17 different presidents depending on how historians count partial or contested uses, an...