I just uploaded this to test some iMovie stuff – its dual purposes were to introduce me to apple software and to educate individuals on the art of buying groceries while being male and in your 20’s.
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On the morning of July 22nd, 1862, the president called a Cabinet meeting. What he said took everyone by surprise. After long thought, he told them, he had decided to emancipate the slaves.
William Safire, Journalist
“It was a stunning moment. It was against everything Lincoln had promised ah, to all the Republicans and, and indeed the country, that he would not become an abolitionist. He would not strike at slavery where it existed. And here suddenly, he was changing the character of the war.”