Calendar of American History: 1884 (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from Calendar of American History: 1884<br><br>Proclamation of Emancipation I863. - Twenty one years ago to-day slavery was abolished in the Seceded States by President Lincoln''s Proclamation of Emancipa tion. This ultimately freed nearly four million slaves and ended in the United States the reign of slaverv. Which had existed since the first cargo of Africans ar rived in Virginia in 1620 which had been for fifty years the chief subject of political agitation and which in its final struggle for existence cost nearly four billion dol lars and the lives of three quarters of a million men. This proclamation has been ranked with the Magna Charta and the Declaration of Independence as marking a great epoch in the progress of English civilization.<br><br>About the Publisher<br><br>Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com<br><br>This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases an imperfection in the original such as a blemish or missing page may be replicated in our edition. We do however repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.