Answer:
it means alot which ever quote it is, i do not see any but i will say all of them.
Explanation:
That on the first day of January in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty-three all persons held as slaves within any state or designated part of a State. the people whereof shall then be in rebellion against the United states ,shall be then thence forward and forever free; and the executive government of the United states ,including military and naval authority the office will recognize and maintain freedom of such persons and will do not acts to repress such persons,or any of them in any efforts they may make for their actual freedom
Plantations usually were bigger and grew only one to two things. while farms were either small and for one family or for a small village.
The "great act" referred to by Senator Sumner in this excerpt is "The addition of Hiram Rhodes Revels to the U.S. Senate."
What Senator Charles Sumter said in 1870 was the following: "All men are created equal, says the great Declaration and now a great act attests this verity. Today we make the Declaration a reality. ... The Declaration was only half established by Independence. The greatest duty remained behind. In assuring the equal rights of all we complete the work."
Hiram Revels became the first African American to enter the Senate of the United States Congress when the Republicans supported him on February 25, 1870.
