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Two Emancipators: Adam Goodheart's The Other Emancipation Proclamation

Abraham Lincoln with a presidential proclamation liberated the negro slaves and ended slave trade in the United States. Czar Alexander II of Russia also freed russian slaves called serfs from their bondage. In fact he did it a year earlier than Abraham Lincoln who had to govern over a civil war and fight to keep the Union.

Back then it was the Russian monarchy who was calling the western states socialists, which highlights how far from the mainstream Czar Alexander II was in his decision to emancipate slaves. He was advised that there will be a revolution by the aristocrats who owned the slaves. He provided land for the freed slaves and payment for the slave owners.

Abraham Lincoln tried to prevent a civil war. At first he called on negroes who wish to be free to fight for their freedom on the side of the Union.  He freed the slaves but did not provide a means for them to be accepted in the society. Former slaves lived in huts and in poor economic conditions. Their lot in life would continue in Mississippi in the 1960s.

Abraham Lincoln and the Czar Alexander II both died from assassins.

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Adam Goodheart: 1861 Civil War Awakening and other Amazon books.
Wikipedia Article on Czar Alexander II


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