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4 giorni fa · Il 16 aprile Lincoln approvò una legge che bandiva definitivamente la schiavitù a Washington, portando in tal modo alla liberazione di circa 3.500 schiavi presenti in città; mentre il 19 giugno firmò una legge che proibiva la schiavitù in tutti i territori del West.
2 giorni fa · The 1860 Republican National Convention in Chicago nominated Abraham Lincoln, a moderate former one-term Whig Representative from Illinois. Its platform promised not to interfere with slavery in the South but opposed extension of slavery into the territories.
1 giorno fa · Lincoln unsuccessfully pressured border states to outlaw slavery, and he promoted the Thirteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, which abolished slavery, except as punishment for a crime. Lincoln managed his own successful re-election campaign. He sought to heal the war-torn nation through reconciliation.
5 giorni fa · Abraham Lincoln led his country through a tumultuous period and played an instrumental role in abolishing slavery while preserving the Union as the 16th president of the United States.
5 giorni fa · Summarize this Article. “Now he belongs to the ages,” Stanton is supposed to have said as Lincoln took his last breath. Many thought of Lincoln as a martyr. The assassination had occurred on Good Friday, and on the following Sunday, memorable as “Black Easter,” hundreds of speakers found a sermon in the event.
5 giorni fa · Lincoln signed the District of Columbia Compensated Emancipation Act into law on April 16, 1862, resulting in the freedom of about 3,000 enslaved people in the nation’s capital. Emancipation Proclamation. Lithograph copy of the Emancipation Proclamation.
3 giorni fa · Se Laboulaye ne aveva parlato a Bartholdi già nel 1865, le sue richieste si erano fatte più pressanti tra il 1867 e il 1869. Perché? Secondo alcuni storici, Laboulaye intendeva celebrare l’abolizione della schiavitù seguita alla Guerra di secessione. Ma aveva dubbi su questo punto.
