Emancipation of Soul
My history classes in primary school in the 1990s taught me that President Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation freed the enslaved. It wasn’t until I was older to research for myself, I found that while he made the 1863 announcement, the law allowed slavery to continue in slave states that were not at war with the Union. The ratification of the 13 th Amendment in 1865 freed all the enslaved but the Proclamation itself was impactful in that it strategically influenced the circumstances of the civil war, kept Britain and France from backing the Confederacy, and allowed for Black men to participate in service to the Union’s military ( Editors ) . “I realized my soul would feel more congruent and secure…” This demonstrates to me the power that backs not only voice and the instructions its vibrations can give a person, but that I do what I want to do and I don’t what I wish not to do. Abraham Lincoln made a conscious choice to decide and follow th...
