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5 pages in length. It is no easy task selecting only three historical documents from Robert C. Baron's "Soul of America: Documenting Our Past" that have played an integral role in defining significant issues in American history. By choosing Abraham Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation, Richard Nixon's Resignation Speech and The Constitution of the United States, it is expected that the student will receive a well-rounded indication of just how the political process has greatly influenced social standing. The writer discusses how illustrating the manner by which contemporary society has taken example of these documents clearly exemplifies the fact that little has changed with regard to the writings' fundamental purpose. No additional sources cited.
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Documenting Our Past that has played an integral role in defining significant issues in American history. By choosing Abraham Lincolns Emancipation Proclamation, Richard Nixons Resignation Speech and The Constitution
of the United States, it is expected that the student will receive a well-rounded indication of just how the political process has greatly influenced social standing. Illustrating the manner
by which contemporary society has taken example of these documents clearly exemplifies the fact that little has changed with regard to the writings fundamental purpose.
From 1492 to 1870, what came to be the peak of the Atlantic slave trade, no fewer than eleven million Africans were seized from their countries and forced
into slavery; some five hundred thousand of them went to the United States. It is reported that an estimated ten million died en route. President Lincoln was to
be instrumental in the abolition of such horrendous and inhumane treatment when he penned the Emancipation Proclamation in 1863. This historical document was to set a precedence with regard
to inherent human rights and attempt to close the wide gap between races. "That on the 1st day of January, A.D. 1863, all persons held as slaves within any
State or designated part of a State the people whereof shall then be in rebellion against the United States shall be then, thenceforward, and forever free; and the executive government
of the United States, including the military and naval authority thereof, will recognize and maintain the freedom of such persons and will do no act or acts to repress such
persons, or any of them, in any efforts they may make for their actual freedom" (Baron PG). This unmatched approach to human existence was the beginning of what Lincoln
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