Slavery? no -- 'upon the great truth that the negro is not equal to the white man, that Slavery' --which he then defines to be 'subordination to the superior race' -- 'is his natural and moral ...

It proposed to emancipate the slaves in all rebel areas on January 1, 1863. Secretary of State William H. Seward agreed with the proposal, but cautioned Lincoln to wait until the Union had a major ...

Such have been the disastrous results of attempting to dodge the Slavery question, which Mr. CALHOUN, as we find by his printed letters, since published, forced on the country. "Force the Issue." ...

Slavery in America didn’t end 150 years ago, with Abraham Lincoln’s 1863 Emancipation Proclamation. Based on Douglas A. Blackmon’s Pulitzer Prize-winning book, the film illuminates how in ...

After a victory at Antietam in 1862, he drafted the Proclamation, which was officially announced on January 1st, 1863. All of the slaves in the states in rebellion—exempting those in the border ...

General Robert E. Lee’s surrender at Appomattox came the day before the first night of Passover 1865. A Chicago rabbi, Liebmann Adler, welcomed the conclusion of the Civil War and the end to slavery, ...

In 2025, D.C. is celebrating 20 years of officially observing the holiday. A parade, festival, concert and fireworks will ...