On the recordJanuary 1, 1881
It must be the end of all compromises with slavery--a declaration that thereafter the war was to be conducted on a new principle, with a new aim.
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Frederick Douglass
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From his autobiography, articulating the profound shift in war aims and principles that the Emancipation Proclamation represented, ending all compromises with slavery.
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