Frees 3100 enslaved individuals. For the past year as war raged between the union and the confederacy opponents of slavery had decried the scandal of slavery continuing to exist within the Nations Capital. Eight and a half month later, president lincoln signed the emancipation proclamation which did not free all enslaved persons but sent a powerful signal that slavery would no longer be tolerated. The emancipation proclamation has assumed a place among the greatest arguments of human freedom. The story of the emancipation proclamation is one that would help to redefine freedom and eventually change the course of history. Both the proclamation and the d. C. Legislation represent a promise of hope, freedom, and justice that continues to inspire and resonate with the American People more than 150 years after its creation. Now its my pleasure to welcome the reverend thomas brown to the stage. He is the director of the office of religious affairs and the executive office of the mayor. And t
About a big issue that goes throughout the civil war era, that we need to look at in the antebellum period, the civil war and reconstruction to understand. That question is the United States constitution. One of the things historians have been asking for generations about the constitution and the civil war era, basic questions as to what degree did the constitution shape the civil war era . To what degree did make political actors do certain things . Constrain them or guide their actions . On the flip side, to what degree did the civil war shape the constitution . Some of this is very clear in the 13th, 14th and 15th amendments, which directly change the constitution, but also different views of the constitution. One of the things people have looked at, looking back at the u. S. Constitution during the civil war era, is how different people, particular president s, have actor have interacted with the constitution. Have they followed it, tried to defend it, did they abridge the constitu
About a big issue that goes throughout the civil war era, that we need to look at in the antebellum and the civil war and reconstruction to understand. That question is the United States constitution. One of the things historians have been asking for generations about the constitution and the civil war era, basic questions as to what degree did the constitution shape the civil war era . To what degree did make political actors do certain things . Constrained them or guide their actions . To what degree did the civil war shape the constitution . Some of this is very clear in the 13th, 14th and 15th amendments which directly changed the constitution but also different views of it. One of the things people have looked at, looking back at the u. S. Constitution during the civil war era is how different people, particularly president s, have interacted with it. Have they followed it, tried to defend it, did they abridge it . It shapes how people think of president s during civil war era. Th
Reconstruction to understand. That is the United States institution. Whether things historians have been asking for generations about the constitution and the civil war era, basic questions as to what degree did the constitution shape the civil war era . To what degree did make political actors do certain things . Constrained them or guide their actions . To what degree did the civil war shape the constitution . Some of this is very clear in the 13th, 14th and 15th amendments which directly changed the constitution but also different views of it. One of the things people have looked at, looking back at the u. S. Constitution during the civil war era is how different people have interacted with it. Had they followed it, tried to defend it, did the a bridge did they abridge it . It shapes how people think of president s during civil war era. It will we are looking up to the people we will look at today are Andrew Johnson and Abraham Lincoln and how they interacted with the constitution o
This audience really merits it. I thought maybe one day if i write this book and people notice it maybe one day the mayor of charleston will be holding it in front of an audience, a packed house. This is what happened one week after the book was released. Its truly beyond my wildest dreams. The book tells the story of reconstruction and im going to read some passages from it some of which you will see from the Police Department some that deal with the mayor and the current mayor here. The point is we are all heirs to something. We have no say. We are born where we are and we have no say in what we inherit and all we have control of his will he do with it. We can recount some of the triumphs and some of the greatest tragedies but i think moving on from the tragedy of 2015 you created this group. You decided intentionally to create the space word difficult issues in the community could be discussed. It would have been easy and very human to say the murder was not from charleston, you hav