Here is where we try to introduce students to the process of actually “doing history” by offering direct access to various types of primary source documents. \u00a0 For historians, reading and analyzing such documents offers the closest equivalent we have to a “laboratory” experience.\u00a0 And nothing matters more for understanding the complicated story of emancipation’s development as a policy than learning how to conduct a close reading of the key documents.<\/p>\n
US Constitution and Slavery<\/strong><\/p>\n Excerpts from the Constitution and 1787 Debates<\/a><\/p>\n Understanding the Federal Consensus<\/a><\/p>\n Famous Anti-Slavery Speeches<\/a><\/p>\n Contrabands and Confiscation<\/strong><\/p>\n Contraband of War<\/a><\/p>\n Congressional Confiscation Acts<\/a><\/p>\n Abraham Lincoln<\/strong><\/p>\n Selected Quotations on Slavery & Emancipation<\/a><\/p>\n Confronting the Slave Trade<\/a><\/p>\n September 22, 1862 Proclamation<\/a><\/p>\n Emancipation Proclamation<\/a><\/p>\n Witnesses to Emancipation<\/strong><\/p>\n See Matthew Pinsker’s essay, “Emancipation Moments,”<\/a>\u00a0for a narrative that ties together several of these fascinating first-hand accounts.<\/p>\n Orville H. Browning (1861-64)<\/a>\u00a0–Diary entries from a senator and close friend of Lincoln’s<\/p>\n Anna Harrison Chase (1862-63)<\/a>\u00a0–1936 newspaper interview with former contraband in DC<\/p>\n James Rumley (1862-63)<\/a>\u00a0–Diary entries from North Carolina slaveholder during Union occupation<\/p>\n Prince Rivers (1862-63)<\/a> –Story of remarkable sergeant in First South Carolina Volunteers<\/p>\n First South Carolina Volunteers (1863)<\/a>\u00a0 –Emancipation Day in Port Royal, South Carolina<\/p>\n Thomas Rutling (1863)<\/a>\u00a0–Post-war interview with former Tennessee slave<\/p>\n James T. Ayers (1864)<\/a>\u00a0–Diary entry from Union recruiting agent in Alabama<\/p>\n Louis Hughes (1865)<\/a>\u00a0–Recollections from a former Mississippi slave<\/p>\n Thomas Ashby (1865)<\/a>\u00a0–Recollections from the son of a Virginia slaveholder<\/p>\n Booker T. Washington (1865)<\/a>\u00a0 –Most famous account of emancipation moment in Virginia<\/p>\n John Greenleaf Whittier (1865)<\/a>\u00a0–Poem celebrating passage of the Thirteenth Amendment<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Here is where we try to introduce students to the process of actually “doing history” by offering direct access to various types of primary source documents. \u00a0 For historians, reading and analyzing such documents offers the closest equivalent we have … Continue reading
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