http://cwemancipation.wordpress.com/2012/07/10/gradual-emancipations-last-stand/ remembering freedom for the slaves ... Tue, 14 May 2013 02:27:43 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ http://cwemancipation.wordpress.com/2012/07/10/gradual-emancipations-last-stand/#comment-850 Thu, 12 Jul 2012 10:51:47 +0000 http://cwemancipation.wordpress.com/?p=3295#comment-850 Sounds like Lincoln was just checking off a box on the road to emancipation.

]]> http://cwemancipation.wordpress.com/2012/07/10/gradual-emancipations-last-stand/#comment-843 Wed, 11 Jul 2012 06:27:49 +0000 http://cwemancipation.wordpress.com/?p=3295#comment-843 I don’t think anyone has come up with a better, though unsentimental, appreciation of Lincoln’s importance and his leadership, than Frederick Douglass in his speech about Lincoln at the 1876 dedication of the Freedmen’s Monument in DC http://teachingamericanhistory.org/library/index.asp?documentprint=39

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