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Date Posted: 17:34:38 11/13/02 Wed
Author: Hilary
Subject: The Politics of Emancipation

* Radicals of the Republican party wanted to use the war to abolish slavery immidiatly and comletely
*Conservatives favored a slower less disruptive to end slavery
* In the begining, they had the suppourt of the president
*In 1861, Congress Passed the Confiscation Acts, which declared slaves to be free
* Owners in the District of Columbia were compinsated for their slaves after slavery was abolished
*Radicals went to Congress to push the president to get the president to employ the slaves as soldiers
*January 1, 1863 the president signed the Emancipation Proclamation which which declared foreveer free slaves in all areas of the Confederacy except those who wo=ere already under Union control: Tennessee, western Virginia, and southern Loisianna
* The proclamation did not apply to the border slave states, which had never succeded from the Union
*The proclamation lead directly to the freeing of thousands of slaves
* In the end of the war, slavery had been abolished in two more Union slave states: Maryland and Missouri and in three Confederate states: Tennessee, Arkansas, and Louisiana
*The final staep came in 1865, when Congress approved the 13th Amendment, abolishing slavery in all parts of the United Staes

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