Despite that expansive wording, the Emancipation Proclamation was limited in many ways. It applied only to states that had seceded from the Union, leaving slavery untouched in the loyal border states. It also expressly exempted parts of the Confederacy that had already come under Northern control. Most important, the freedom it promised depended upon Union military victory.
Although the Emancipation Proclamation did not immediately free a single slave, it captured the hearts and imagination of millions of African Americans, and fundamentally transformed the character of the war from a war for the Union into a war for freedom. Moreover, the proclamation announced the acceptance of black men into the Union army and navy, enabling the liberated to become liberators. By the end of the war, almost 200,000 black soldiers and sailors had fought for the Union and freedom.
In colonial America, Africans "contributed" to society by being a source of income for people who bought and sold them into slavery. They also contributed by being laborers in the southern plantations.
Women contributed to the society by being a house wives --meaning they took care of the house-- as well as cooking meals for the family and taking care of the children.
Native Americans, in the earlier days, contributed by trading with settlers and teaching them how to do things in their environment.
(Sorry I really don't know what the children did)
The spread of Islam changed many countries. The religion quickly spread and many countries of power classified themselves as Muslim countries. This united the countries in a religious manner and all of the Muslim countries were led and ruled by a khalifah. The united rule helped Muslims achieve victory over battles that would change the face of the Earth.
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Montezuma treated the strangers on the coast like gods and accordingly gave them vast expensive gifts, due to their pale skin and the way that they had landed on the coast.
Benjamin Banneker was a free African-American almanac author, surveyor, landowner and farmer who had knowledge of mathematics and natural history. Born in Baltimore County, Maryland, to a free African-American woman and a former slave, Banneker had little or no formal education and was largely self-taught. :)
