The Abolitionists: The Emancipation Proclamation and the Civil War

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Classroom Material
Keywords
American Civil War Legislation Armed Forces Presidents Nonviolence Equal rights Black Americans 1800s
Subjects
History-Social Science
Grade Levels
Grade 6 Grade 7 Grade 8 Grade 9 Grade 10 Grade 11 Grade 12 Post-Secondary
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The Abolitionists: The Emancipation Proclamation and the Civil War

The 1863 enactment of the Emancipation Proclamation pulled abolitionists like the former slave Frederick Douglass and the pacificst William Lloyd Garrison into full support of the Civil War. Video from, American Experience: "Abolitionists."
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