Jonathan Edwards, a theologian, delivered the sermon "Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God" on July 8, 1741, at a congregational church in Enfield.
The Emancipation Proclamation was issued by President Abraham Lincoln on January 1, 1863, as the country was approaching its third year of a deadly civil war.
Secretary of State William Seward convinced Lincoln to hold off until the Union had achieved a significant military triumph. At the Battle of Antietam, the Union forces had just repelled an assault by General Robert E. Lee's soldiers, which Lincoln interpreted as a sign that the Proclamation was appropriate.
For the first time, black people were allowed to enlist in the Union Army, and by the end of the war, approximately 200,000 had done so. Slavery was finally permanently abolished in the United States thanks to the Emancipation Proclamation.
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