Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude ... The Emancipation Proclamation, issued by President Abraham Lincoln on January 1, 1863, signaled the transformation of an expedient military strategy ...

From the National Anti-Slavery Standard, March 9. Last Monday was the most unlucky day in the life of ABRAHAM LINCOLN ... the threats fulminated by this abolition despot. He may make a grave ...

The 1864 letter in which Abraham Lincoln replies to the abolitionist ... the United States as of January 1, 1863, full abolition of slavery was not accomplished until adoption of the 13th ...

On November 6, 1860 Abraham Lincoln was elected President of the United States -- an event that outraged southern states. The Republican party had run on an anti-slavery platform, and many ...

IDAHO FALLS – Abraham Lincoln said goodbye to ... At age 19, Leroy said Lincoln also saw the “abhorrence of slavery.” On a ...

April 14 (UPI) --On this date in history: In 1775, the first slavery abolition society ... In 1865, John Wilkes Booth shot President Abraham Lincoln during a performance of Our American Cousin ...

As a young man in Illinois, Abraham Lincoln was a religious skeptic ... praising God for “every successive step” leading toward slavery’s abolition. But there was still much to be done ...

So is Tom Hanks related to former President Abraham Lincoln ... which was a turning point in the abolition of slavery, Enacting the Homestead Act, which provided land to settlers, Starting ...

Lincoln gets candid about how razor-thin the margin for victory was for Abraham Lincoln and ... that would abolish the practice of slavery. The fact is, abolition wasn't all that popular a cause ...