All 28 Uses
emancipated
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What They Fought For - 1861-1865
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- " After reading Lincoln's Proclamation of Amnesty and Reconstruction in December, 1863, which stipulated southern acceptance of emancipation as a condition of peace, another Arkansas soldier, a planter, wrote his wife that Lincoln not only wanted to free the slaves but also "declares them entitled to all the rights and privileges as American citizens.†
p. 53.6emancipation = the act of being released from slavery or servitude; or (metaphorically) from social restraints
- Emancipation was a salient issue for Union soldiers because it was controversial.†
p. 54.2 *
- The son of a wealthy Georgia planter still believed that "the negro's happiest condition is in slavery," but between abolition by the Yankees and emancipation by Confederates he was willing to choose "the lesser of two evils."†
p. 55.5
- A Tennessee officer agreed that "slavery is lost or will be, & we had as well emancipate if we can make anything by it now....We can certainly live without negroes better than with yankees and without negroes both."†
p. 55.6emancipate = to release from slavery or servitude; or (metaphorically) from social restraints
- Four decades ago Bell Wiley wrote that scarcely one in ten Union soldiers "had any real interest in emancipation per se."†
p. 56.5emancipation = the act of being released from slavery or servitude; or (metaphorically) from social restraints
- But if "emancipation per se" meant a perception that the abolition of slavery was inseparably linked to the goal of preserving the Union, then almost three in ten Union soldiers took this position during the first year and a half of the war, and many more were eventually converted to it.†
p. 56.8
- In November, 1861, a Massachusetts officer and Harvard graduate declared that "slavery has brought death into our own households already in its wicked revolt against the government....There is but one way, and that is emancipation; either that or we must succumb and divide."†
p. 57.1
- At times during the first two years of the war, for every soldier who held this opinion another expressed the opposite conviction: that emancipation was an unconstitutional and illegitimate war aim.†
p. 57.4
- Whereas a tacit consensus united Confederate soldiers in support of "southern institutions," including slavery, a bitter and explicit disagreement about emancipation divided northern soldiers.†
p. 57.5
- '" As northern armies penetrated into the South they became agents of emancipation by their mere presence.†
p. 59.1
- By the summer of 1862, antislavery principle and pragmatism fused into a growing commitment to emancipation as both a means and an end of Union victory.†
p. 59.9
- It would not become public for two months, but meanwhile the work of practical emancipation went on.†
p. 60.4
- A backlash of antiemancipation sentiment began to surface in the letters of a number of them in 1862.†
p. 60.7antiemancipation = opposed to emancipationstandard prefix: The prefix "anti-" in antiemancipation means against or opposite. This is the same pattern you see in words like antiviral, antiaircraft, and antisocial.
- "No one who has ever seen the nigger in all his glory on the southern plantations will ever vote for emancipation," wrote an Indiana private.†
p. 60.9emancipation = the act of being released from slavery or servitude; or (metaphorically) from social restraints
- If emancipation is to be the policy of this war ...I do not care how quick the country goes to pot.†
p. 60.9
- The cause of Union united northern soldiers; the cause of emancipation divided them.†
p. 61.6
- A New York lieutenant wrote to his sister in January, 1863, that in his officers' mess "we have had several pretty spirited, I may call them hot, controversies about slavery, the Emancipation Edict and kindred subjects."†
p. 61.9
- An Indiana sergeant told his wife that while he had no use for free blacks, he approved the Emancipation Proclamation "if it will only bring the war to an end any sooner I am like the fellow that got his house burned by the guerrillas he was in for emancipation subjugation extermination and hell and damnation.†
p. 62.9
- For a time during the winter of 1862-1863, antiemancipation expressions seemed to outnumber those on the other side.†
p. 64.1antiemancipation = opposed to emancipationstandard prefix: The prefix "anti-" in antiemancipation means against or opposite. This is the same pattern you see in words like antiviral, antiaircraft, and antisocial.
- And of the soldiers in my sample who expressed a clear opinion about emancipation as a war aim at any time through the spring of 1863, two and one-half times as many favored it as opposed it: 36 percent to 14 percent.†
p. 64.3emancipation = the act of being released from slavery or servitude; or (metaphorically) from social restraints
- These figures undoubtedly understate antiemancipation sentiment, for the regiment's colonel was a strong supporter of the proclamation and the poll was an open one.†
p. 64.6antiemancipation = opposed to emancipationstandard prefix: The prefix "anti-" in antiemancipation means against or opposite. This is the same pattern you see in words like antiviral, antiaircraft, and antisocial.
- The twoand-one-half-to-one majority for emancipation in my sample also probably overstates the margin in the army as a whole, because proemancipation sentiment was strongest among those groups overrepresented in the sample—officers, and men from professional and white-collar occupations—and underrepresents the less educated soldiers from blue-collar and immigrant backgrounds among whom antiblack and antiemancipation attitudes were strongest.†
p. 64.7emancipation = the act of being released from slavery or servitude; or (metaphorically) from social restraints
- The twoand-one-half-to-one majority for emancipation in my sample also probably overstates the margin in the army as a whole, because proemancipation sentiment was strongest among those groups overrepresented in the sample—officers, and men from professional and white-collar occupations—and underrepresents the less educated soldiers from blue-collar and immigrant backgrounds among whom antiblack and antiemancipation attitudes were strongest.†
p. 64.9antiemancipation = opposed to emancipationstandard prefix: The prefix "anti-" in antiemancipation means against or opposite. This is the same pattern you see in words like antiviral, antiaircraft, and antisocial.
- And that prevalence increased after the low point of early 1863 as a good many antiemancipation soldiers changed their minds.†
p. 65.1
- This produced an anticopperhead backlash among Union soldiers, including many Democrats, that catapulted some of them clear into the Lincoln camp on emancipation.†
p. 65.3emancipation = the act of being released from slavery or servitude; or (metaphorically) from social restraints
- * The second factor that converted many soldiers to support of emancipation was a growing conviction that it really did hurt the enemy and help their own side.†
p. 66.5
- In this respect the contribution of black soldiers—whose enlistment was a corollary of the emancipation policy—did much to change the minds of previously hostile white soldiers.†
p. 66.5
- A junior officer in the 86th Indiana reported in March, 1863, that men who two months earlier had damned the "abolition war" and threatened to desert now favored both emancipation and black soldiers.†
p. 66.7
Definitions:
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(1)
(emancipated) released from slavery or servitude; or (metaphorically) from social restraints
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)