Abraham Lincoln (1809– 1865), the 16th President of the United States, successfully led his country through its greatest crisis, the Civil War, and he introduced measures that resulted in the abolition of slavery, issuing his Emancipation Proclamation in 1863 and promoting the passage of the Thirteenth Amendment to the Constitution in 1865.
The Gettysburg Address: Gettysburg Address is the most famous speech of U.S. President Abraham Lincoln and one of the most quoted speeches in United States history. It was delivered November 19, 1863, during the American Civil War, four and a half months after the Union armies defeated those of the Confederacy at the decisive Battle of Gettysburg. In just over two minutes, Lincoln invoked the principles of human equality espoused by the Declaration of Independence and redefined the Civil War as a struggle not merely for the Union, but as "a new birth of freedom" that would bring true equality to all of its citizens.
The Emancipation Proclamation consists of two executive orders issued by Lincoln during the Civil War, which in practice, committed the Union to ending slavery. The first one, issued September 22, 1862, declared the freedom of all slaves in any state of the Confederate States of America that did not return to Union control by January 1, 1863. The second order, issued January 1, 1863, named the specific states where it applied.
Second Inaugural Address: Lincoln delivered on March 4, 1865, at the start of his second term as President of the United States. At a time when victory over the secessionists in the American Civil War was within days and slavery was near an end, Lincoln did not speak of happiness, but of sadness.
Audio Book Contents
- The Gettysburg Address
- The Emancipation Proclamation
- Second Inaugural Address
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Cover Art: The Lincoln Memorial in Washington D.C.
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