<span>In seventeenth-century new england, the puritan practice of singing that is based on call and response was called lining-out. It is also known as hymn lining. It is a type of a cappella where a leader gives every line of a hymn as it is for it to be sung in a chanted form. </span>
Lincoln issued the first Emancipation Proclamation shortly after the Battle of Antietam. It would take effect January 1, 1863.
This did not effect any European power from formal recognition. least of all the world's most powerful empire with millions of "Native Peoples " under their control. One can call it forced labor. The British had already given the Confederacy "de facto " recognition as it had a constitution, a government and an army.
Im not sure but back then it was probably a big deal because they could be informed and entertained abt what was going on in the world
