Emancipation at Last

Lecture Outline• Abolitionists• Military Commanders

– Benjamin Butler– John C. Fremont– David Hunter

• Congress– 1st Confiscation Act– 2nd Confiscation Act

• Lincoln• Reaction• African American Experience

– Contraband Camps– Confiscated Plantations

Frederick Douglass

Wendell Phillips

Sen. Charles Sumner of Massachusetts

Benjamin Butler

Harpers Weekly, July 1862

John C. Fremont

David Hunter

Lincoln discussing preliminary proclamation with Cabinet

Lincoln in McClellan’s tent at Antietam

Lincoln at Antietam

Rappahannock River, Va. Fugitive African Americans fording the Rappahannock, Aug. 1862

Cumberland Landing, Va. Group of "contrabands" at Foller's houseMay 1862

Bermuda Hundred, Va. African-American teamsters 1864

1st South Carolina Volunteers on Review to Hear the Reading of Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation, January 1, 1863.

Culpeper, Va. "Contrabands“Nov. 1863

Port Royal Island, S.C. African Americans preparing cotton for the gin on Smith's plantation