The Emancipation Proclamation took effect on Jan. 1, 1863.
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Emancipation Proclamation. Source: National Archives
Who did it “emancipate”? And who gets credited?
As Rethinking Schools editor Bill Bigelow wrote for the Zinn Education Project “If We Knew Our History” column “Rethinkin’ Lincoln”:
With rare exceptions — like the American Social History Project/Center for Media & Learning, CUNY’s fine Freedom’s Unfinished Revolution — middle and high school textbooks fail to credit the real anti-slavery heroes in this story: the enslaved themselves, along with their Black and white abolitionist allies.
Continue reading “Rethinkin Lincoln” and find related lessons and other classroom resources below.
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