Abraham Lincoln #12: Emancipation (1862-1863); Topics covered include: Attempts for compensated emancipation (fail), Second Confiscation Act, Draft Emancipation Proclamation, response to Horace Greeley's "Prayer of 20 million," Battle of Antietam, replace George McClellan with Ambrose Burnside, releases draft Emancipation Proclamation to the public, justification for Emancipation, and the final release of the Emancipation Proclamation
Key people: Edwin Stanton, William Seward, Gideon Welles, F.B. Carpenter, Horace Greeley, Frederick Douglass, Robert E. Lee, George McClellan, Ambrose Burnside, Jefferson Davis, and Albert Hodges
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