Comments on: Lincoln and Emancipation – February 1861 http://cwemancipation.wordpress.com/2011/02/03/lincoln-and-emancipation-february-1861/ remembering freedom for the slaves ... Tue, 14 May 2013 02:27:43 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Theresa Casteel http://cwemancipation.wordpress.com/2011/02/03/lincoln-and-emancipation-february-1861/#comment-17 Sat, 05 Feb 2011 20:43:41 +0000 http://cwemancipation.wordpress.com/?p=85#comment-17 Very interesting. Thank you.
We recently went to the Lincoln exhibit in DC. It was very good and exceeded my expectations.
Regards,
Theresa (Tangled Trees)

]]> By: Donald Shaffer http://cwemancipation.wordpress.com/2011/02/03/lincoln-and-emancipation-february-1861/#comment-16 Fri, 04 Feb 2011 00:11:17 +0000 http://cwemancipation.wordpress.com/?p=85#comment-16 LOL. It’s okay, you’ve given me some posting ideas for four years hence. :-)

]]> By: Mitch Kachun http://cwemancipation.wordpress.com/2011/02/03/lincoln-and-emancipation-february-1861/#comment-15 Thu, 03 Feb 2011 23:55:00 +0000 http://cwemancipation.wordpress.com/?p=85#comment-15 Sorry I jumped the gun!

]]> By: Donald Shaffer http://cwemancipation.wordpress.com/2011/02/03/lincoln-and-emancipation-february-1861/#comment-14 Thu, 03 Feb 2011 20:53:12 +0000 http://cwemancipation.wordpress.com/?p=85#comment-14 Hi Mitch. Thanks for the interesting facts on the significance of February 1 in regard to emancipation. One of the purposes of this blog is to show–day by day–how Lincoln got from his position on emancipation on Feb. 1, 1861 to the one he held on Feb. 1, 1865.

]]> By: Mitch Kachun http://cwemancipation.wordpress.com/2011/02/03/lincoln-and-emancipation-february-1861/#comment-13 Thu, 03 Feb 2011 20:33:33 +0000 http://cwemancipation.wordpress.com/?p=85#comment-13 Yet on February 1, 1865, after 4 years of bloody war, Lincoln signed the congressional joint resolution that would become the 13th Amendment, abolishing slavery. In 1948, after years of lobbying by an elderly African American activist named Major Richard R. Wright, Sr., President Harry Truman issued a proclamation designating February 1 as National Freedom Day–a national holiday commemorating the end of American slavery. For more details, see Mitch Kachun, “‘A beacon to oppressed peoples everywhere’: Major Richard R. Wright, Sr., National Freedom Day, and the Rhetoric of Freedom in the 1940s,” Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography 128:3 (July 2004), 279-306.

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