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The North and Emancipation

The North and Emancipation. Aaron Sheehan-Dean Teaching American History Program Kern County, California February 4-5, 2011. Republicans. Charles Sumner (MA). Lyman Trumball (IL). James Doolittle (WI). Democrats. Douglass. “ To our mind, there is but one easy, short

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The North and Emancipation

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  1. The North and Emancipation Aaron Sheehan-Dean Teaching American History Program Kern County, California February 4-5, 2011

  2. Republicans Charles Sumner (MA) Lyman Trumball (IL) James Doolittle (WI)

  3. Democrats

  4. Douglass “To our mind, there is but one easy, short and effectual way to suppress and put down the desolating war which the slaveholders and their rebel minions are now waging against the American Government and its loyal citizens. Fire must be met with water, darkness with light, and war for the destruction of liberty must be met with war for the destruction of slavery. The simple way, then, to put an end to the savage and desolating war now waged by the slaveholders, is to strike down slavery itself, the primal cause of that war.” -- Douglass' Monthly, May 1861

  5. Peninsula Campaign

  6. John Bankhead Magruder

  7. Escape

  8. Butler and Contraband " In a state of rebellion I would confiscate that which was used to oppose my arms— and take all that property which constituted the wealth of that state, and furnished the means by which the war is prosecuted, besides being the cause of the war; and if, in so doing, it should be objected that human beings were brought to the free enjoyment of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness, such objection might not require much consideration.” -- Butler to Cameron, July 30, 1861

  9. August, 1861: First Confiscation Act – owners of slaves in direct • support of the Confederate military can have their slaves confiscated • August, 1861: Fremont, commanding in Missouri, orders all property • of all rebels subject to confiscation. • April, 1862: Slavery abolished in DC, with compensation for the owners. • May, 1862: Hunter, commander in SC/GA/FL, issues order freeing • all slaves in his department (of both loyal and rebel owners). • June, 1862: Slavery is prohibited in U.S. territories • July, 1862: Second Confiscation Act –all slaves of any rebel are free. • Also gave the President the authority to use contrabands as soldiers.

  10. Emancipation Proclamation

  11. Effect of the Emancipation Proclamation

  12. Robert Smalls

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