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Maryland Slave Writes Lincoln


Letter from Annie Davis to Abraham Lincoln - DocsTeach

Twelve Years a Slave (COPY), Twelve Years a Slave (COPY), Twelve Years a ... Writing from Belair, Maryland, she continued, "Will you please let me know ...

Emancipation Proclamation: “It is my Desire to be Free”

On April 25, 1864, Annie Davis, an enslaved woman living in Maryland, wrote a brief but touching letter to President Abraham Lincoln, asking if she was free.

Letter to President Abraham Lincoln from Annie Davis | DocsTeach

Students will study a letter from Annie Davis, a woman who was enslaved in Maryland and wrote a letter to President Abraham Lincoln during the Civil War to ...

Slavery and Emancipation in Sharpsburg, MD - National Park Service

Annie Davis, a woman enslaved in Maryland, wrote to President Lincoln on August 25, 1864: “Mr. President It is my Desire to be free. to go ...

Maryland Emancipation Day - KRISTINA R. GADDY

"Mr. President, it is my desire to be free," Ms. Annie Davis wrote to Lincoln on August 25th, 1864. ... Davis lived in Bel Air, Maryland, and that ...

Maryland Slave Writes Lincoln: “Am I Free? What Can I Do?”

Letter from Annie Davis to Abraham Lincoln, 8/25/1864. From the Records of the Adjutant General's Office. See it up close. Maryland Slave Writes ...

Maryland in the American Civil War - Wikipedia

American Civil War (1861–1865), Maryland, a slave state, was one of ... In a letter to President Lincoln, Mayor Brown wrote: It is my solemn duty to ...

Abraham Lincoln's Speech on the Dred Scott Decision

These statistics show that slavery is the greatest source of amalgamation; and next to it, not the elevation, but the degeneration of the free blacks. Yet Judge ...

Remarks in Response to a Serenade

... slavery constitutes the chief merit of the ... Henry Willis, chairman of the loyal citizens of Maryland resident in the District of Columbia, wrote Lincoln ...

The Loyal Colored People of Baltimore Give Lincoln a Bible

Bible given to Abraham Lincoln by freemen of Baltimore, Maryland in September, 1864; the "Lincoln Bible" is in the collection of the Fisk ...

Abraham Lincoln and slavery - Wikipedia

Abraham Lincoln's position on slavery in the United States is one of the most discussed aspects of his life. Lincoln frequently expressed his moral ...

Abraham Lincoln and Emancipation | Articles and Essays

The Emancipation Proclamation and Thirteenth Amendment brought about by the Civil War were important milestones in the long process of ending legal slavery ...

Slavery's Mark on Lincoln's White House

Tracked by a vicious owner's hounds, Mary Dines had escaped from slavery in Maryland, hidden in a hay wagon. Taught to read and write by a ...

Letters from Black Americans to their former enslavers

Lincoln was never a slaveholder, but as president during the Civil War, he held the fate and freedom of millions of Black Americans in his hands ...

Abraham Lincoln and Frederick Douglass: Inside Their Complicated ...

Since escaping from slavery to the North in 1838, he had written two bestselling autobiographies that recounted his journey from a Maryland ...

Abraham Lincoln and Maryland

Lincoln's most valued supporters, and was especially distasteful to the Union men of Maryland, with Henry Winter Davis at their head. They regarded Mr. Blair as ...

Maryland Constitutional Convention of 1864

During the Civil War, President Abraham Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation of 1863 freed slaves in Confederate states but not in the Union state of ...

Lincoln and Lew in Maryland - General Lew Wallace Study & Museum

Maryland did vote to free the slaves. Lincoln sent for Lew to congratulate him. Lew wrote that Lincoln said, “I sent for you…to say that I ...

Frederick Douglass and Abraham Lincoln - White House Historical ...

Frederick Douglass was born into slavery in 1818 along the Eastern Shore of Maryland. During his childhood, the wife of one of his owners ...

Mr. Lincoln and Freedom - AbrahamLincoln.org

“I have always thought that all men should be free; but if any should be slaves it should be first those who desire it for themselves, and secondly, those who ...