Abraham Lincoln Emancipation Proclamation Quotes

After some changes he issued the preliminary version on september 22 which specified that the final document would take effect january 1 1863.

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Lincoln quotes lincoln often utilized his eloquent speech to emphasize his beliefs on slavery in the words of elihu root a nobel peace prize recipient lincoln never made the mistake of using words either oral or written merely for his own satisfaction. This essay describes the development of those documents through various drafts by lincoln and others and shows both the evolution of abraham lincoln s thinking and his efforts to operate within the constitutional. A century has passed more than a hundred years since equality was promised.