...and I recommend to them that, in all cases when allowed, they labor faithfully for reasonable wages. And I further declare and make known, that such persons...vessels of all sorts in said service. And upon this act, sincerely believed to be an act of justice, warranted by the Constitution, upon military necessity,...

...and I recommend to them that, in all cases where allowed, they labor faithfully for reasonable wages. And I further declare and make known that such persons...vessels of all sorts in said service. And upon this act, sincerely believed to be an act of justice, warranted by the Constitution upon military necessity,...

...and I recommend to them that, in all case when allowed, they labor faithfully for reasonable wages. And I further declare and make known that such persons...vessels of all sorts in said service. And upon this act, sincerely believed to be an act of justice, warranted by the Constitution upon military necessity,...

...and I recommend to them, that in all cases, when allowed, they labor faithfully for reasonable wages. And I further declare and make known that such persons...vessels of all sorts in said service. And upon this, sincerely believed to be an act of justice, warranted by the Constitution, upon military necessity,...

...President Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation addressed receiving slaves who came within Federal lines: And I further declare and make known that such persons...places, and to man vessels of all sorts in said service. In practice this meant that many escaped slaves were assigned to perform some of the hardest and most...

...violence, unless in necessary self defence; and in all cases, when allowed, to labor faithfully, for wages. And I further declare, and make known, that such persons...the armed service of the United States to garrison and defend forts, positions, stations, and other places, and to man vessels of all sorts in said service....

...and I recommend to them that in all cases when allowed, they labor faithfully for reasonable wages And I further declare and make known that such persons...received into the armed service of the United States. . . As many abolitionists noted, all enslaved people of African descent were not freed, only those...

...recruitment of black soldiers and sailors, they were originally assigned the limited role of maintaining "garrison forts, positions, stations, and other places,...and to man vessels of all sorts in said service." By the spring of 1863, however, Lincoln had overcome his initial reservations about committing black...

...and I recommend to them that, in all cases when allowed, they labor faithfully for reasonable wages. And I further declare and make known, that such persons...vessels of all sorts in said service. And upon this act, sincerely believed to be an act of justice, warranted by the Constitution, upon military necessity,...

...recommend to them that, in all cases when allowed, they labor faithfully for reasonable wages. And l further declare and make known, that such persons...vessels of all sorts in said service. And upon this act, sincerely believed to be an act of justice, warranted by the Constitution, upon military necessity,...