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Emancipation - freeing the slaves - hell? The Emancipation Proclamation - one of the sacred icons of American background - a tragedy? How do this be? That was the opinion of Frederick Douglass, the main African American head of the 19th hundred years, who proclaimed, "I denounce the so-called Emancipation." Douglass had written: "I confess that the Negro...has made little progress from barbarism to civilization, which he's in a deplorable condition since his emancipation. That he's worse off in many respects, than when he was a slave, I am compelled to confess..." Indeed, social statistics of 1900 suggest that material quality of life was lower for some black People in america than under slavery. Kirkpatrick Sale marshals much forgotten proof to cast this glorious part of American background in an authentic and critical light. Emancipation, yes. But as a military measure during a cruel war of invasion? Slavery once been around throughout the traditional western hemisphere, but just about everywhere except america, it concluded peacefully. Emancipation with no thought or plan for the unprecedented situation to be handled? Without real sympathy or involvement in the individuals freed except their usefulness in managing and exploiting the conquered South? (Some North market leaders denounced the Proclamation as an atrocity and an estimated 200,000 Northerners deserted or evaded service in a war for African People in america rather than for the "Union.") Perhaps never in history, Kirkpatrick Sale shows, has a benevolent work been so tainted with impure motives and disdain of repercussions. Abraham Lincoln has too much to answer for, says the writer. His flawed proclamation doomed People in america to a hundred years and a half of racial conflict and disparity that continues to be with us.
