Ep. 474: Civil War - Part 4: What You Were Never Told About The Emancipation Proclamation

In Part 4 of Bear Grease's Civil War Summer series, Clay Newcomb continues the conversation with JD Huitt and sits down with historian Dr. Brooks Blevins to examine one of the most consequential decisions of the war: Abraham Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation. Following the bloodshed at Antietam—the single deadliest day in American history—the Union president made a bold political, military, and moral gamble that transformed the...

Ep. 474: Civil War - Part 4: What You Were Never Told About The Emancipation Proclamation

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