Voices of the Civil War Episode 22: "Gettysburg Address"

On November 19, 1863, in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, President Abraham Lincoln gave the Gettysburg Address, just 272 words, lasting 3 minutes. The location of the Gettysburg Address had its own special resonance for African-Americans. Since the eighteenth century, the town of Gettysburg had maintained a small, vibrant African-American community. But during the Battle of Gettysburg, the two armies damaged or destroyed much of the property belonging to African-Americans, and many of the black residents who fled the town did not return. Though no one could mistake the meaning of the "new birth of freedom", the Gettysburg Address remained silent about the fate of African-Americans. The "great task" mentioned by Lincoln was not emancipation, but the preservation of self-government. Though words cannot end a war or bind up a nation's wounds, the Gettysburg Address lives on as perhaps the most significant speech in American history.

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More n More, we are realizing how Exceptional, not only Abraham Lincoln, was? But how Extraordinary, many of Our Forefathers We're.
Lest we Forget Them? Or even our Own Parents n Mentor's? Also may God guide us through the Uncertainty of Life? To the Peace of Restful Sleep in The End.

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