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A 14 page paper discussing the significance of Lincoln's document freeing the slaves in the lives of those people whom it most intimately affected. It traces the historical background of the Proclamation; anti-black feeling before, during, and immediately after the Civil War; and analyzes what positive effect, if any, the Proclamation had. Bibliography lists 6 sources.
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want to remember it, our myths show us what we value in ourselves. And no other period of our history, save possibly the 1960s, is imbued with more myth than
the period of the Civil War and the Emancipation Proclamation. Perhaps this is because of that eras very divisiveness. Although from the very beginning the various regions of our country
were divided by ethnic, religious, and philosophical differences, at no other point did these differences become so pervasive -- and so central to the way we viewed ourselves --
that they literally split the country in two. It is also significant that although the outcome of the Civil War reduced the threat of the countrys literal cleavage into two
different nations just as it ended the legal fact of slavery, it did not change the radically different viewpoints of Southerners and Yankees, and it did not change the way
the country as a whole perceived black people. After the war, while it was no longer legal to buy or sell black people on the open market, while it was
no longer legal to bring a black person back to his area of origin by force and compel him to work for a master he hated at a job he
hated -- this did not automatically spell freedom for the black race. It certainly did not improve their way of life in any appreciable manner, except in the fact that
they were now free to become shoeshine boys in Ohio rather than farm hands in Virginia. Yes, through the Emancipation Proclamation Lincoln freed the slaves -- but the degree to
which the new way of life was an immediate improvement is open to debate. In order to understand this, it is necessary to provide a little background into the "peculiar
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