More than two years have passed since U.S. President Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation. Since that day, emancipation of slaves has come about bit by bit, and is yet far from complete. Today the latest chapter in this ongoing saga takes place in Kansas City, Kansas, where the city’s remaining black slaves are emancipated,…
On this second anniversary of the Emancipation Proclamation, freedmen North and South celebrate, praising God and giving thanks to U.S. President Abraham Lincoln for leading them out of captivity. For the Confederacy, the storyline of the war has turned into a nightmare. The Southern economy, resting on the free labor of slaves, is in tatters.…
As the year draws to a close, Sherman eyes the Carolinas, the Confederacy prays for a miracle, and newly freed blacks in Georgia celebrate the miracle of their freedom. General William T. Sherman, having successfully captured Savannah, contemplates marching on nearby Charleston, the city that more than any other fostered Southern secession and then led…