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Abraham Lincoln and the Emancipation Proclamation

Abraham Lincoln and the Emancipation Proclamation . Nancy Benyik Laurie Carideo Brianna Scott Tamara Stovall. Introduction. Introduction. Lincoln’s personal and political evolution Textbooks over simplify Lincoln’s view on slavery and racism

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Abraham Lincoln and the Emancipation Proclamation

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  1. Abraham Lincolnand the Emancipation Proclamation Nancy Benyik Laurie Carideo Brianna Scott Tamara Stovall

  2. Introduction

  3. Introduction • Lincoln’s personal and political evolution • Textbooks over simplify Lincoln’s view on slavery and racism • Lincoln’s motives are arguable among sources • Students should be presented with the whole picture to understand Lincoln’s decisions and creation of Emancipation Proclamation “If textbooks recognized Lincoln’s racism, students would learn that racism not only affected Ku Klux Klan extremists but has been ‘normal’ throughout history” -Loewen, 2007, p. 182 Loewen, 2007; Peterson, 2002

  4. Abraham Lincoln

  5. Abraham Lincoln: Slavery and Racism • Affected Lincoln’s personal life • Politically Addressed • Kansas-Nebraska Act • Dred Scott Decision • House Divided Speech • Lincoln's Speech at New Haven - A Speech on Slavery • Lincoln Douglas Debates • Motives and views are arguable among sources History place, 1996; Loewen, 2012; Owens, 2004;Paterson, 2002

  6. Emancipation Proclamation

  7. Emancipation Proclamation • Preliminary announced on September 22nd, 1862 • Mandated that the Confederacy had until January 1st to return to the Union, or forever forfeit its slaves • Initially freed approximately 200,000 slaves • Limitations • Only freed slaves in Confederate states Holzer, 2011; Peterson, 2002

  8. Teaching Narrative

  9. Lesson Plan • Apart of a Union on U.S. democracy • Objectives • Standards • Context

  10. Lesson Flow

  11. Differentiation

  12. References History Place, The. (1996). The history place presents Abraham Lincoln. Retrieved from http://www.historyplace.com/lincoln/ Loewen, J.W. (2007). Lies my teacher told me: Everything your American history textbook got wrong. New York: Simon & Schuster. Peterson, B. (2002). Presidents and slaves – Helping students find the truth. ZinnEducation Project. Accessed at: http://zinnedproject.org/posts/564

  13. Questions?

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