Abraham Lincoln and the

Emancipation Proclamation

Nancy Benyik Laurie CarideoBrianna 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

Loewen, 2007; Peterson, 2002

“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

Abraham Lincoln

Abraham Lincoln: Slavery and Racism

• Affected Lincoln’s personal life • Politically Addressed – 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

• Analysis• Cooperative

learning• Differentiate

process

Research• Synthesis• Application• Differentiate

product

Conclusion

• Homework• Unit test

Assessment

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?