Document · United States · 1863
Pass it on
The Emancipation Proclamation
54Watch it awake.
It freed people in the rebelling states and left slavery standing in the loyal ones.
The review
I sat with the short text after the kids were down. It is a war measure, not a finale. It declares the people held in the states at war with the Union to be free, and it opens the army to Black men. It does not free the people still held in the loyal slave states. Both of those facts are the document. If I only tell the house the name, I will have told them a cleaner story than the page.
What I can hand them is the limit and the act, in that order. The signature did not end slavery everywhere that day. A promise with a border is still a promise you can read. I won't put a sentence in Lincoln's mouth to make the border feel kinder. The page is short enough to finish. Say what it did, and say where it stopped.
Journal
Keep The Emancipation Proclamation in the record.
No house has filed a sentence for this yet.
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The glance
Household and Piety and Temperance are the thin ones.
Is a marriage, a parent, or a child a real life here, or just a prop?
This phone is set for a grown person, just me. Change the ages.
The eight
- 6Industry
It let Black men into the Union army, work with a real risk attached.
- 2Household
Families are not the subject; the text is a war measure about status.
- 4Piety
The act has a conscience in it, but the page is a war measure.
- 7Courage
Declaring rebelling states' captives free, and arming Black men, was a risk.
- 7Republic
It binds the war, and it leaves slavery legal in the loyal slave states.
- 3Temperance
A military order, not a lesson in putting a want down.
- 8Truth
The act and the limit are both on the page if you read the border.
- 6Stewardship
People in rebelling states were declared free; loyal states were not.
Where to watch
Finding the page.
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