Since the Emancipation Proclamation had been issued on Jan. 1, people in the North were wondering aloud just what it was they were fighting for.
自从《解放宣言》在1月1日发表后,北方的人们惊呼那正是他们为之而战的。
Kenyan students in the 1940s recited the Emancipation Proclamation in resistance to British rule.
二十世纪40年代的肯尼亚学生背诵《解放黑奴宣言》来反对英国的统治。
Lincoln had already decided to free some and was in effect forewarning potential opponents of the Emancipation Proclamation that they must accept it as a necessary measure to save the Union.
林肯已经决定解放部分奴隶,并行之有效地对《解放奴隶宣言》的潜在反对者提出了警告:他们必须接受宣言作为拯救联邦的必要措施(这一事实)。
President Abraham Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation on January 1, 1863.
林肯总统于1863年1月1日签署了解放宣言。
After Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation that took effect on January 1, 1863, it became clear that northern victory would mean the end of slavery.
林肯发表了于1863年生效的《解放宣言》后,人们清楚地看到北方的胜利将意味着奴隶制的结束。
And because the government believed 「majority ruled」, the slaves lived in such conditions until the Emancipation Proclamation was written during the bloody Civil War.
正是政府信奉「多数人做主的原则」。奴隶们生活在这种状况下,直至南北战争中解放公告的诞生。
The Emancipation Proclamation abolished slavery in the United States.
《解放黑奴宣言》在美国废除了黑奴制度。
Ultimately, of course, Lincoln saved the Union, issued the Emancipation Proclamation and stood firmly by it, despite criticism.
最重要的一点呢,当然是林肯拯救了美国,签署并且坚定地维护《解放黑奴宣言》,尽管当时批评纷纭。
What did the Emancipation Proclamation do?
问:解放宣言的用意何在?
When Lincoln finally unveiled the Emancipation Proclamation in the fall of 1862, he framed it in Butleresque terms, not as a humanitarian gesture but as a stratagem of war.
林肯在1862年最后签署了解放黑奴的法令,法令还是以Butler式的术语写的,没有人道主义的色彩,只是作为战争的策略。