Write an Essay about the Abolition of slavery based on the document and outside
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Write an Essay about the Abolition of slavery based on the document and outside
![Document 1a
To the Honorable Counsel & House of Representatives for the State of Massachusetts Bay In General Court
assembled, January 13, 1777:
The petition of a great number of Blacks detained in a state of slavery in the bowels of a free & Christian country
humbly shows that your petitioners apprehend that they have in common with all other men a natural and
unalienable right to that freedom which the great parent of the universe that bestowed equally on all mankind
... but that were... torn from the embraces of their tender parents from a populous pleasant and plentiful
country and in violation of laws of nature and of nations and in defiance of all the tender feelings of humanity
brought here to be sold like Beasts of Burden, and like them condemned to slavery for life...
.... your honors need not to be informed that a life of slavery like that of your petitioners deprived of every social
privilege of everything requisite to render life even tolerable is far worse than nonexistence....They cannot... but
express their astonishment that It has never been considered that every principle from which America has acted
in the course of their unhappy difficulties with Great Briton pleads stronger than a thousand arguments in favor
of your petitioners...
They therefore humbly Beseech [ask] your honors to give this petition its due weight and consideration & cause
an act of the legislature to be passed whereby they may be restored to the enjoyment of that which is the natural
right of all men and their children who were born in this band of biberty may not be held as slaves after they
arrive at the age of twenty one years....
Source: Petition to the Massachusetts Assembly by Enslaved Africans fo emancination](/v2/_next/image?url=https%3A%2F%2Fcontent.bartleby.com%2Fqna-images%2Fquestion%2Fd0977a35-1f6c-41cb-8554-859e57ceb556%2F0f7aa7d1-f3fe-452b-8526-0c62b721573f%2F7x6x9q_processed.jpeg&w=3840&q=75)
Transcribed Image Text:Document 1a
To the Honorable Counsel & House of Representatives for the State of Massachusetts Bay In General Court
assembled, January 13, 1777:
The petition of a great number of Blacks detained in a state of slavery in the bowels of a free & Christian country
humbly shows that your petitioners apprehend that they have in common with all other men a natural and
unalienable right to that freedom which the great parent of the universe that bestowed equally on all mankind
... but that were... torn from the embraces of their tender parents from a populous pleasant and plentiful
country and in violation of laws of nature and of nations and in defiance of all the tender feelings of humanity
brought here to be sold like Beasts of Burden, and like them condemned to slavery for life...
.... your honors need not to be informed that a life of slavery like that of your petitioners deprived of every social
privilege of everything requisite to render life even tolerable is far worse than nonexistence....They cannot... but
express their astonishment that It has never been considered that every principle from which America has acted
in the course of their unhappy difficulties with Great Briton pleads stronger than a thousand arguments in favor
of your petitioners...
They therefore humbly Beseech [ask] your honors to give this petition its due weight and consideration & cause
an act of the legislature to be passed whereby they may be restored to the enjoyment of that which is the natural
right of all men and their children who were born in this band of biberty may not be held as slaves after they
arrive at the age of twenty one years....
Source: Petition to the Massachusetts Assembly by Enslaved Africans fo emancination
![Now, therefore I, Abraham Lincoln, President of the United States, by virtue of the power In me vested as
Commander-in-Chief, of the Army and Navy of the United States in time of actual armed rebellion against the
authority and government of the United States, and as a fit and necessary war measure for suppressing said
rebellion, do, on this first day of January, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty-three,
and in accordance with my purpose so to do publicly proclaimed for the full period of one hundred days,
from the day first above mentioned, ordekklr and designate as the States and parts of States whereln the
people thereof respectively, are this day in rebellion against the United States, the following, to wit:
Arkansas, Texas, Louisiana, including the City of New Orleans, Mississippi, Alabama, Florida, Georgia, South
Carolina, North Carolina, and Virginia, (except the forty-eight counties designated as West Virginia, and also
the counties of Berkley, Accomac, Northampton, Elizabeth City, York, Princess Ann, and Norfolk, including the
cities of Norfolk and Portsmouth[)], and which excepted parts, are for the present, left precisely as if this
proclamation were not issued.
And by virtue of the power, and for the purpose aforesaid, I do order and declare that all persons held as
slaves within said designated States, and parts of States, are, and henceforward shall be free; and that the
Executive government of the United States, including the military and naval authorities thereof, will
recognize and maintain the freedom of said persons.
And I hereby enjoin upon the people so declared to be free to abstain from all violence, unless in necessary
self-defence; and I recommend to them that, in all cases when allowed, they labor faithfully for reasonable
wages.
And I further declare and make known, that such persons of suitable condition, will be received into the
armed service of the United States to garrison forts, positions, stations, and other places, and to man vessels
of all sorts in said service.
Done at the City of Washington, this first day of January, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred
and sixty three, and of the Independence of the United States of America the eighty-seventh.
By the President: ABRAHAM LINCOLN
WILLIAM H. SEWARD, Secretary of State.](/v2/_next/image?url=https%3A%2F%2Fcontent.bartleby.com%2Fqna-images%2Fquestion%2Fd0977a35-1f6c-41cb-8554-859e57ceb556%2F0f7aa7d1-f3fe-452b-8526-0c62b721573f%2Fxzz9nlk_processed.jpeg&w=3840&q=75)
Transcribed Image Text:Now, therefore I, Abraham Lincoln, President of the United States, by virtue of the power In me vested as
Commander-in-Chief, of the Army and Navy of the United States in time of actual armed rebellion against the
authority and government of the United States, and as a fit and necessary war measure for suppressing said
rebellion, do, on this first day of January, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty-three,
and in accordance with my purpose so to do publicly proclaimed for the full period of one hundred days,
from the day first above mentioned, ordekklr and designate as the States and parts of States whereln the
people thereof respectively, are this day in rebellion against the United States, the following, to wit:
Arkansas, Texas, Louisiana, including the City of New Orleans, Mississippi, Alabama, Florida, Georgia, South
Carolina, North Carolina, and Virginia, (except the forty-eight counties designated as West Virginia, and also
the counties of Berkley, Accomac, Northampton, Elizabeth City, York, Princess Ann, and Norfolk, including the
cities of Norfolk and Portsmouth[)], and which excepted parts, are for the present, left precisely as if this
proclamation were not issued.
And by virtue of the power, and for the purpose aforesaid, I do order and declare that all persons held as
slaves within said designated States, and parts of States, are, and henceforward shall be free; and that the
Executive government of the United States, including the military and naval authorities thereof, will
recognize and maintain the freedom of said persons.
And I hereby enjoin upon the people so declared to be free to abstain from all violence, unless in necessary
self-defence; and I recommend to them that, in all cases when allowed, they labor faithfully for reasonable
wages.
And I further declare and make known, that such persons of suitable condition, will be received into the
armed service of the United States to garrison forts, positions, stations, and other places, and to man vessels
of all sorts in said service.
Done at the City of Washington, this first day of January, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred
and sixty three, and of the Independence of the United States of America the eighty-seventh.
By the President: ABRAHAM LINCOLN
WILLIAM H. SEWARD, Secretary of State.
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