Proclamation: American New Year 1863
Episode 132 of the The American Story podcast, hosted by Christopher Flannery, titled "Proclamation: American New Year 1863" was published on January 18, 2022 and runs 8 minutes.
January 18, 2022 ·8m · The American Story
Episode Description
On New Year's Day 1863, President Lincoln signed the proclamation he had promised a hundred days before. Lincoln understood better than anyone the constitutional challenges to emancipation. He took the greatest care to draft the proclamation in terms that could be defended before the highest court in the land. Then in the last weeks of his life, he "left no means unapplied" to getting the Thirteenth Amendment, abolishing slavery, approved by Congress.
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