The Influence Of The Emancipation Proclamation
The Emancipation Proclamation was a presidential proclamation that declared that all persons kept as slaves in states shall be free. Although the Emancipation Proclamation, did not end slavery in the nation ,it became the main theme and it had an influence on millions of Americans. Americans wrote, and read about the violence and unfairness amongst other people, including news of the emancipation. In this case literature has addressed issues of race. Lincoln’s solution to the constitutionality of ending slavery was to find a better way of freeing people of slavery. The Constitution did provide the president , as commander-in-chief, with powers to continue with his idea of emancipation . As commander-in-chief, Lincoln reasoned, he could change this by disrupting their economy and agricultural production, since they were dependent on slavery. The Emancipation Proclamation did not free all the slaves and, technically, freed very few people immediately. But, it changed everything and Lincoln knew his decision created a new beginning to end slavery. Du Bois who is known as “The Father of the African Revolution”, sees the cruel life that African Americans are living , as not being recognized neither fully African nor fully American. He proclaims
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One of his poems “ For the union dead” talks about a civil war hero , Robert Shaw whose sister Josephine had married one of Lowell's ancestors. The poem is about, though it’s not sure, a family poem; and in it, Lowell quotes from a letter that Charles Russell Lowell wrote to , Josephine, about her brother's funeral: "I am thankful that they buried him with his niggers.' They were brave men and they were his men." "For the Union Dead" talks about not only the person who Robert Gould Shaw was but also the African American men. This poem is a really good example of Lowell’s ability to relate what was going on in his private life with the social
One of his poems “ For the union dead” talks about a civil war hero , Robert Shaw whose sister Josephine had married one of Lowell's ancestors. The poem is about, though it’s not sure, a family poem; and in it, Lowell quotes from a letter that Charles Russell Lowell wrote to , Josephine, about her brother's funeral: "I am thankful that they buried him with his niggers.' They were brave men and they were his men." "For the Union Dead" talks about not only the person who Robert Gould Shaw was but also the African American men. This poem is a really good example of Lowell’s ability to relate what was going on in his private life with the social