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The battle allowed Abraham Lincoln to issue the Emancipation Proclamation. For two months, Lincoln's order proclaiming the freedom of slaves in rebel territories had festered in a desk drawer, awaiting good news from the battlefield, lest it be seen as a desperate ploy.
<span>William Gilbert used a terella in an attempt to explain </span><span>why compasses point toward the north and south poles of the Earth.</span>
Slave dealers savagely captured Africans and stacked them onto slave ships, where for months these people persevered the “Middle Passage”—the crossing of the Atlantic from Africa to the North American colonies or West Indies. Numerous Africans did not survive the travel.
