{"id":20889,"date":"2023-05-26T03:33:29","date_gmt":"2023-05-26T03:33:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/questions\/read-the-background-resources-related-to-the-emancipation-proclamation-including-the-document-itself-and-respond-to-each-of-the-four-quotes-about-it\/"},"modified":"2023-05-26T03:33:29","modified_gmt":"2023-05-26T03:33:29","slug":"read-the-background-resources-related-to-the-emancipation-proclamation-including-the-document-itself-and-respond-to-each-of-the-four-quotes-about-it","status":"publish","type":"questions","link":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/questions\/read-the-background-resources-related-to-the-emancipation-proclamation-including-the-document-itself-and-respond-to-each-of-the-four-quotes-about-it\/","title":{"rendered":"Read the background resources related to the Emancipation Proclamation (including the document itself) and respond to each of the four quotes about it."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Explain why you agree or disagree with each of the assessments of it.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The act makes clear that the lives of our heroes have not been sacrificed in vain. It makes a victory of our defeats.&#8221; Ralph Waldo Emerson (1862)<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We show our sympathy with slavery by emancipating slaves where we cannot reach them and holding them in bondage where we can set them free.&#8221;  William Seward (1863)<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;[The Emancipation Proclamation was] the central act of my administration [and] the great event of the nineteenth century.&#8221;  Abraham Lincoln (1865)<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I cannot swallow whole the view of Lincoln as the &#8216;Great Emancipator.&#8217;  Anyone who actually reads the Emancipation Proclamation knows it was more a military necessity than a clarion call for justice.&#8221;  Barack Obama (2005)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Explain why you agree or disagree with each of the assessments of it. &#8220;The act makes clear that the lives of our heroes have not been sacrificed in vain. It makes a victory of our defeats.&#8221; Ralph Waldo Emerson (1862) &#8220;We show our sympathy with slavery by emancipating slaves where we cannot reach them and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"disciplines":[1103],"paper_types":[],"tagged":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/questions\/20889"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/questions"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/questions"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20889"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/questions\/20889\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20889"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"disciplines","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/disciplines?post=20889"},{"taxonomy":"paper_types","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/paper_types?post=20889"},{"taxonomy":"tagged","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tagged?post=20889"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}