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January, 2009
Deliberating in a Democracy
PD and Lecture by Professor Marjorie Hilton, Redlands University,
“The Fall of the Soviet Union and the Transition to Democracy
for Former Soviet Bloc Countries”
January 28
Location TBA
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January 2009
The Emancipation Proclamation
 On January 1, 1863, President Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation, which declared that "all person held as slaves" in the rebel states "are, and henceforward shall be free." The proclamation also allowed nearly 200,000 black men to fight in the Union Army and Navy.
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 Abolitionist leader Frederick Douglass
urged black men to join the Union Army.
In 1863, he wrote, "Better even to die
free than to live slaves." |
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