Feel dumb but cant figure it : / read the underlined sentence, and then answer the questions. the proclamation mrs. johnson refers to is the proclamation? “they tell me . . you will take back the proclamation, don't do it. when you are dead and in heaven, in a thousand years that action of yours will make the angels sing your praises i know it. ought one man to own another, law for or not, who made the law, surely the poor slave did not. so it is wicked, and a horrible outrage, there is no sense in it.” –hannah johnson

The proclamation Mrs. Johnson refers to is the emancipation  Proclamation.

“They tell me . . . you will take back the Proclamation, don't do it. When you are dead and in Heaven, in a thousand years that action of yours will make the Angels sing your praises I know it. Ought one man to own another, law for or not, who made the law, surely the poor slave did not. So it is wicked, and a horrible outrage, there is no sense in it.”

People often makes proclamations. The proclamation Mrs. Johnson refers to is the emancipation  Proclamation.

This Proclamation was known to be issued by President Abraham Lincoln on January 1, 1863.

This was done at the time where the nation was said to have approached its third year of the civil war struggle.

The proclamation was said to have declared "that all persons held as slaves" within any of the rebellious states "are, and shall be free."

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