click image for close-up Click here for the text of this historical document ... The decree also left room for a plan of compensated emancipation. No Confederate states took the offer, and ...

9-10.5 Analyze how a text uses structure to emphasize key points ... This video explores the Great Migration and the idea that the Emancipation Proclamation did not live up to its promises.

ST. LOUIS – In 1861, Major General John C. Fremont issued an emancipation proclamation in St. Louis, freeing slaves in Missouri, a bold move that predated President Abraham Lincoln’s more ...

An Emancipation Day Parade will be held in Charleston ... and henceforward shall be free.” The result of the document was the enlistment of formerly enslaved people in the Union army, changing ...