The Emancipation Proclamation Excerpt Analysis
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Emancipation Proclamation: A Primary Source Analysis
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Emancipation Proclamation Excerpt Analysis activity - Use spider maps to analyze different excerpts and illustrate what they mean!
Storyboard Text
- "...all persons held as slaves within any State ...the people whereof shall then be in rebellion against the United States, shall be then, thenceforward, and forever free."
- FREEDOM
- "...and as a fit and necessary war measure for suppressing said rebellion, do, on this first day of January, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty-three."
- This quotes the section of the document proclaiming that all slaves that exist in rebellious parts of the nation shall, from this day forward, be considered free peoples.
- This quote signifies that Lincoln is also issuing the Emancipation Proclamation as a war measure, and therefore, we can consider it a war tactic.
- "...and that the Executive government of the United States, including the military and naval authorities thereof, will recognize and maintain the freedom of said persons."
- You are hereby declared FREE!
- EXCERPT ANALYSIS: THE EMANCIPATION PROCLAMATION
- "...and make known, that such persons of suitable condition, will be received into the armed service of the United States to garrison forts, positions, stations, and other places..."
- This quote means that the Union military will maintain and carry out the orders within the Emancipation Proclamation. Namely, the honoring the freeing of slaves in rebellious areas.
- This quote means that all freed persons who are able will be accepted into the Union military. They will man and operate any and every aspect of military duty.
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