Concept of Freedom in American History

Running head: AMERICAN HISTORY
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1AMERICAN HISTORY
 Concept of Freedom in American History
The concept of freedom has some important underpinnings in the history of America. One of
the biggest announcements in the American internal politics was the Emancipation Proclamation
that was made in the year 1863 (Lincoln and Hugo 2012). The documents that have been
provided for this paper discuss about the incident where the role of Abraham Lincoln was an
immense one. It has also been said the most important thing was that some of the slaves in the
country had got their freedom while they served the army. The freedom from slavery has been
considered as one of the most significant things in this context. After the Emancipation
Proclamation, the slaves in some of the rebellious states had been released completely (Lincoln
and Hugo 2012). They had been suffering under this evil for over two hundred years then and
they needed to be freed. The concept of slavery had been completely banished by the American
constitution during that time. It is believed by most people in the country that freedom is the
birth right and it should never be given away by the by anyone (Holzer and Lincoln 2012).
This concept of freedom has been compared in many aspects indeed. The concept of Social
Darwinism had been very evident once upon a time in the country. The American social picture
had been changed completely during the Civil War (Gordon 2017). The civil rights for the black
skinned people had become the centre of all the controversy indeed. The powerful speeches
regarding freedom of the African-American slaves had been focused mostly in this regard.
Abraham Lincoln had a special focus on this matter as he spoke about it with all the confederate
states. He had spoken about it in a peaceful manner.
 Comparison and contrast between concepts of ‘freedom’