LECTURE: “Addition of a Powerful Ally”
Lecture: “Addition of a Powerful Ally”
As part of the DuSable Museum Lecture Series, Professor Harold Hari Jones, the distinguished historian and assistant director of the African American Civil War Museum in Washington, D.C will analyze President Lincoln’s policy and the little-known impact by the nearly 200,000 African American soldiers had on the Union war effort.
President Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation on Jan. 1, 1863, by granting freedom to all enslaved persons in all areas of the Confederacy still in rebellion. However, it did not pertain to any enslaved persons in states under federal control.
In spite of its limitations, one of the most important provisions of the proclamation allowed men of African descent to join the Union Army, thus adding a “powerful ally” to bring an end to the war with a Union victory.
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