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
• 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
Abraham Lincoln
Abraham Lincoln:
Slavery and Racism
• Affected Lincoln’s personal life
• Politically Addressed
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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
Emancipation Proclamation
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
Teaching Narrative
Lesson Plan
• Apart of a Union on U.S. democracy
• Objectives
• Standards
• Context
Lesson Flow
• Activate Prior
Knowledge
• Problem
Hypothesis
Research
• Analysis
• Cooperative
learning
• Differentiate
process
• Synthesis
• Application
• Differentiate
product
Conclusion
Assessment
• Homework
• Unit test
Differentiation
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. Zinn Education Project.
Accessed at: http://zinnedproject.org/posts/564
Questions?