#GUhist286 103. Day 23. This class traces the revolutionary process of wartime emancipation. Here's a detailed chronology of key events from Lincoln's election to the ratification of the 13th Amendment... (Source: Freedmen & Southern Society Project) http://www.freedmen.umd.edu/chronol.htm 

#GUhist286 104. Day 23. Wartime emancipation was driven by the complex interplay of war, politics, and social struggle on the ground, including the actions taken by thousands of enslaved people who seceded from their owners... https://repository.library.georgetown.edu/handle/10822/550820

#GUhist286 105. Day 23. From the beginning of the war, enslaved people who sought refuge with the U.S. army were deemed "contraband." The word caught on in American culture. E.g., in Dec. 1861, the "Contrabands of Georgetown College" put on a show... http://slaveryarchive.georgetown.edu/items/show/424 

#GUhist286 106. Day 23. Lincoln set the stage for the Emancipation Proclamation in Fall 1862, as antislavery forces in the North argued that abolition would cripple the Confederacy and end the war... http://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/2003674578/

#GUhist286 107. Day 23. The Emancipation Proclamation declared slaves in rebel-held territory to be "forever free" & authorized the recruitment of black soldiers. Slaves in Union-held territory and the Union slave states (DE, MD, KY, MO) were exempted... https://www.ourdocuments.gov/doc.php?flash=true&doc=34

#GUhist286 108. Day 23. Emancipation proceeded in an ad hoc fashion in places exempted from the E.P., sowing confusion. In 1864, Annie Davis wrote to Abraham Lincoln from Maryland asking "if we are free." Such a poignant letter! #slaveryarchive http://www.freedmen.umd.edu/adavis.htm 

#GUhist286 109. Day 23. Few sources illustrate the military dynamic of emancipation in the U.S. better than this powerful 1864 letter from black soldier Spotswood Rice, who promised his children that he was coming to free them "if it cost me my life." http://www.freedmen.umd.edu/rice.htm 

#GUhist286 110. Day 23. The revolution of wartime emancipation in the United States in one photograph. https://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/2018670840/