Your Artstor image groups were copied to Workspace. The Artstor website will be retired on Aug 1st. Tennessee Historical Magazine Vol. 4, No. 1, MARCH, 1918 THE VOLUNTARY EMANCIPATION OF SLAVES IN ...

No Confederate states took the offer, and on January 1 Lincoln presented the Emancipation Proclamation. The proclamation declared, "all persons held as slaves within any States, or designated part ...

To put this in a practical shape, let us suppose that all the Slave States agree to this, and that the emancipation is gradual, terminating in 1900 -- which is thirty-seven years -- can the negro ...

3. It read in part, "The people of Texas are informed that, in accordance with a proclamation from the Executive of the United States, all slaves are free." But the emancipation that took place in ...

"Trace/s," the Brooklyn Public Library's newest exhibit, was unveiled last week in Downtown Brooklyn, connecting the legacy ...

On February 2, 1862, Congress took a significant step toward ending slavery in the United States by abolishing it in the District of Columbia. This decision marked a crucial moment in the fight for ...

People often don’t realize the revolutionary nature of the 13th Amendment, and conservatives in particular downplay its revolutionary nature. American historians have for a long time treated the ...

I was the first Black woman to publish my experiences and it helped push towards the Emancipation Act of 1833, which abolished slavery in most parts of the British Empire. But although people were ...

not to free slaves. But by 1862, Lincoln was considering emancipation as a necessary step toward winning the war. The South was using enslaved people to aid the war effort. Black men and women ...

At that time, Northern States (known as the Union States) did not allow slavery and Southern States (known as Confederates) did. In January 1863, Lincoln had issued the Emancipation Proclamation ...

Abraham Lincoln is often regarded as one of the greatest U.S. presidents, due to his leadership during the Civil War and his ...

Thomas Nast's ... [+] celebration of the emancipation of Southern slaves with the end of the Civil War. Nast envisions a somewhat optimistic picture of the future of free blacks in the United States.