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Constitution of the Confederate States
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The Confederate States adopted their Permanent Constitution on March 11, 1861. The original document consisted of five vellum sheets pasted together to form a scroll over twelve feet long. The original document, along with many other documents of the Confederacy, was found at a train station in 1865 by a war-time correspondent, Felix DeFontaine. In 1883, he sold the manuscript to Mrs. George Wymberley Jones DeRenne. In 1939, the DeRenne family sold the document to the University of Georgia, where it now resides.
Civil Disobedience
9781557094179
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Originally published in 1849 as Resistance to Civil Government, Thoreau's classic essay on resistance to the laws and acts of government that he considered unjust was largely ignored until the Twentieth Century when Mahatma Gandhi, Martin Luther King, Jr. and anti-Vietnam War activists applied Thoreau's principles.
The Emancipation Proclamation
9781557094704
Regular price $12.95 Save Liquid error (snippets/product-template line 248): Computation results in '-Infinity'%Lincoln’s Call for Freedom, in an Elegant Gift Edition, Proudly Printed in America
This hardcover edition contains President Abraham Lincoln’s landmark January 1, 1863 executive order, the Emancipation Proclamation, which declared the freedom of over three million of the nation’s slaves. Including the draft, preliminary, and final versions of the text, this lovely version is a perfect gift for any reader.
Gettysburg Address
9781557090737
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The Gettysburg Address was delivered on the afternoon of November 19, 1863 by Abraham Lincoln at the dedication of the battlefield of the Civil War's bloodiest battle. Included in this edition is the Bliss text of the address, contemporary reactions, and other important documents relating to this moving speech by one of America's most beloved Presidents.
