The Real Story Behind the Civil War by Lisa Idzikowski

Author:Lisa Idzikowski [dzikowski, Lisa]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc

In 1837, politician John C. Calhoun of South Carolina used the words “a positive good” when referring to slavery in a speech. He later became a U.S. senator and secretary of state.

THE PROCLAMATIONS

On September 22, 1862, President Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation, which was to take effect January 1, 1863. Unless Confederate forces stopped fighting and rejoined the Union, Lincoln’s proclamation announced, “all persons held as slaves” in the rebelling states “shall be then, thenceforward, and forever free.” Many people take this to mean it ended slavery. Did it?

No. January 1, 1863, came and went, and most slaves in the Union and Confederacy were unaffected. Not only did the proclamation only apply to the states that were rebelling— and not the ones that were already under Union control or part of the Union—but Southern slave owners certainly weren’t going to free their slaves on Lincoln’s command. The Union would have to win the war for Lincoln’s words to mean more.

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